Neocate

I'm still unsure whether it will be free in Wellington. Went to pick it up this morning and the pharmacist gave it to me for free (for now) but he said it put him out of pocket - said Pharmac is funding it at the wholesale price, but he pays the distributer a different (higher) price. So either Pharmac will have to pay more, the wholesaler will have drop their price or I'll have to pay a part charge of about $30-40... while that's obviously much better than what I was paying it seems a little unfair that if you're elsewhere in NZ you don't pay.

Anyway, I agree that having a six-month limit is reasonable. Especially now it is 'free' (yet still costs the taxpayer a lot), so for some people it could be tempting to continue getting it unnecessarily. Though allergies tend to take a year or longer to grow out of. And we don't have health insurance so it will be an additional expense.

Hmm intersesting, the distributor here is now putting a $5 charge on each order, so am going to order my next script in one lump. Basically saying it's freight! Before they could obviously hide it in the cost of the formula now they can't.

Think I might ring around & find the cheapest way to get it.

when i say 12 i meant 8

Thank you so much for posting all this information. I was completely unaware of any of this. My little 8 month old has been on Neocate since 2 months (partially to start with and now fulltime).

We put a script in last week so I will be interested to see what happens.

Like I said - thank you. I would have had no idea what was going on and feel a bit more informed for when we have our next appointment with the Paed dietician.

I heard its now fully funded. That is so great

We are also being charged $5 per order as a freight charge. I'm not that keen on changing pharmacy, but will try to get a bigger script next time so that I only have to pay the charge once.

I was thinking of requesting 3 months worth - but that is 60 cans, so not sure if the GP will do it...