Moving from Melbourne to Auckland mid-treatment

My reviews are six-monthly by video and I have not been into the practice in a year, which suits me entirely.

Ottavia, answering your question directly rather than going round the houses.

The heat in summer is a genuine storage problem and I bought a proper cool bag after one very worrying afternoon.

Something I got right was asking my pharmacy to hold stock for me when supply was uncertain, which they were happy to do.

My honest report is that the care has been good, the supply has been the difficulty, and both are better than they were.

I found the rural arrangements here more developed than I expected, mostly because the distances force them to be.

Bookmarking this. Thank you.

Coming back to what Bronwen wrote further up, because it is the bit I keep thinking about.

The travel between islands and the timing of collections is a real planning problem and I have built a fortnight of slack into everything.

My experience is that things that worked here were arranged locally and that national advice was often not applicable to my situation.

That is a very clear way of putting something I have never been able to put clearly.

What helped most was a practice nurse who took the time to explain the whole pathway once, properly, at the start.

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

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.