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EU-wide position versus national implementation

Regional › European Union EMA personal import cost per milligram formulary Solved Under review

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b.brandtTL217 Apr 2025#1

EU-wide position versus national implementation Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did.

Eu-wide position versus national implementation: what I expected, what I found, and the gap between them.

I am posting the gap rather than a theory about it. My theories about gaps like this one have not held up well.

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v.kirchnerTL216 May 2025#5

coldchain_liu, post #2: I will take the caveat as seriously as the claim, which is the point of putting it there. Go to post

Where a national body publishes clinical guidance, that document determines the practical answer more than the authorisation does.

It reads as pedantry until the day it does not.

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a.finnegan_rdTL2Dietitian Solution1 Jun 2025 · edited#8

Prescription status is harmonised at the level of the authorisation and the practical route to a prescription is not.

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ni.kravchenkoTL220 Jun 2025#12

Summarising the eu-wide position versus national implementation thread so far, since it is long and the answer is buried: the first reply has the method, the fourth has the correction to it, and the rest is people agreeing at length.

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coldchain_liuTL3Regular20 Jul 2025#19

Adding a note of thanks rather than an opinion. I did not know most of that.

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