does the two year wait figure people quote come from anywhere real
#uk-ireland 2025-04-20
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- belfast_bac — anyone in ireland willing to compare what theyre paying 19:09
- void_volume — scotland ran a different process from england when i looked into it, and a member there reported a shorter wait 19:19
- nhs_pathway_nell — the honest position on uk policy is that it moved four times in the two years i have been paying attention 19:46
- nhs_pathway_nell — the shortage was upstream of the pharmacies as far as anyone here could tell, and shouting at counter staff achieved nothing 21:11
- nhs_pathway_nell — everything in this channel about pricing is a snapshot. read any figure here as the month somebody typed it 21:16
northern ireland sits under different arrangements from great britain and those have changed more than once, so do not treat anything i say about it as current, ask me again in a month
ok so i would not repeat any of the nhs criteria as current fact, they were revised at least once since i last read them
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i have never been asked for id at a pharmacy for this and other members here have, so it seems to be down to the individual pharmacist, happy to be corrected
that was 2024
anyone in ireland willing to compare what theyre paying
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*Medutest not the other one
scotland ran a different process from england when i looked into it, and a member there reported a shorter wait
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vat was not charged on the private prescription i saw, but i am the wrong person to ask about tax
anyone had a parcel stopped by border force and what actually happened next
[edited]unlicensed isnt illegal
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is vat charged on a private prescription in the uk
the honest position on uk policy is that it moved four times in the two years i have been paying attention
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pharmacy has had nothing for three weeks, is that everywhere or just my bit of the country
sorry to jump in update from 14 months ago: my clinic price went up by €240 and the supply steadied in the same month
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wales was reported in here as slower to get started and steadier once you were in, and that was second hand
a private prescription in the uk was dispensable at any pharmacy willing to take it, in my experience of it
coming back after 22 months, is the nhs picture any better
the online clinics vary enormously in how much they check. one wanted a video call and photographs and one wanted almost nothing
off label and unlicensed get used interchangeably in here and they are different. off label is a licensed product used outside its licence, not advice obviously
coming back to this an irish member told me their out of pocket cost was noticeably higher than the uk equivalent when they compared in 2024
mine was 18 months
the private quotes i collected last spring ran from about 130 to about 250 a month depending on dose, and that will have moved since
scotland differs
[edited]check, dont trust me
ring more pharmacies
i paid €94 a month at a private clinic in 2024 and the price went up twice while i was with them, for what its worth
i was wrong in here about what unlicensed meant for about six months until somebody sorted me out
the shortage was upstream of the pharmacies as far as anyone here could tell, and shouting at counter staff achieved nothing
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nobody here can tell you what your gp will do. the variation between practices is the whole story in england
how long is the nhs specialist weight management wait where people are, mine was quoted at two years
did anyone get through the nhs route and how long was it end to end
i have never been asked for id at a pharmacy for this and other members here have, so it seems to be down to the individual pharmacist
everything in this channel about pricing is a snapshot. read any figure here as the month somebody typed it
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the criteria included a bmi threshold plus comorbidities when i read them, and they have been revised since, so check rather than trust me
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for the archive cheapest legitimate route i found was a pharmacy led online service, and cheapest is only one axis of that decision
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