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PBS criteria in plain words

Started 24 June 2026 · 12 replies · 82 hearts · read 1.8k times

TillyHereford, UK · 24 June 2026
4 weeks ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: PBS criteria in plain words

Regional question, because I have read a great deal of advice that turns out to be true in one country only.

What I want to know is what to ask for by name, because a general request has got me nowhere three times.

I am some distance from anywhere and every arrangement I have made is shaped by that, and most of what is written assumes otherwise.

Thank you for reading. Please do say where you are when you reply — it changes what the answer means.

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HollisBath, UK
#1

My experience of the shortage period was that the pharmacies communicated much better than any official source did.

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TavitaApia, WS
#2

Tilly, I have been where you are and I would rather say so than stay quiet.

What helped was building a buffer during the good periods, which meant the difficult stretch did not interrupt anything.

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MarenBremen, DE
#3

Tilly, I have been where you are and I would rather say so than stay quiet.

The distances are the thing. My nearest specialist is a flight away and everything I have arranged reflects that.

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PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia
#4

A request rather than a note: where somebody sets out a sequence, give it in order and with the names of the forms. Half a sequence is what sends the next person round twice.

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BevanSwansea, UK
#5

I read this twice. The second time was for the last paragraph.

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OzzyAdelaide, AU
#6

Something practical: the southern summer is my difficult season for storage and I plan around it rather than improvising.

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GusStirling, UK
#7

Supply was genuinely difficult for a stretch and my pharmacy managed it by telling me honestly and early, which was all I needed.

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TamarPlymouth, UK
#8

Gus, thank you for that. It gives me somewhere to start from.

What I found is that telehealth has been excellent here and it removed most of the practical difficulty for me.

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NyreeChristchurch, NZ
#9

Tamar has already said most of this and I want to add the one part that was different for me.

Coming back at two years to say it has been steady, that the supply problem passed, and that telehealth was the thing that made it workable.

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OttiHarrogate, UK
#10

The listing criteria here are specific and published, and reading them properly answered questions I had been asking people for months.

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PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia
#11

I am pleased with this thread. Specific, local, honest about what the poster does not know. That is the brief for this circle exactly.

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BronwenBarry, UK
#12

I would say ask about the authority process specifically, because it was straightforward once somebody explained the sequence.

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