the seizure letters members have had here have been letters and nothing else, but that is our sample rather than a guarantee
#uk-ireland 2025-08-27
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Highlights from this day
- meal_prep_mick — 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, happy to be corrected 19:07
- knees_first — as of when i last looked, nhs access ran through specialist weight management services and the criteria were tight 19:10
- knees_first — the mhra publishes supply notices. whether your pharmacy has read them is an entirely separate matter 19:21
- knees_first — when i checked last year my local specialist service was quoting eighteen months to two years, and that was for a first appointment 20:54
- maintenance_mo — wales was reported in here as slower to get started and steadier once you were in, and that was second hand 21:05
that was 2024
ireland runs its own reimbursement system and as best i understood it a year ago the picture there was less generous than people expect
an irish member told me their out of pocket cost was noticeably higher than the uk equivalent when they compared in 2024
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, happy to be corrected
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as of when i last looked, nhs access ran through specialist weight management services and the criteria were tight
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vat was not charged on the private prescription i saw, but i am the wrong person to ask about tax
has anyone been asked for id at a pharmacy counter for this
the mhra publishes supply notices. whether your pharmacy has read them is an entirely separate matter
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the tier 3 referral needed my gp to actually make it, and that turned out to be harder than meeting the criteria
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off label and unlicensed get used interchangeably in here and they are different. off label is a licensed product used outside its licence
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scotland ran a different process from england when i looked into it, and a member there reported a shorter wait
just a letter
the online clinics vary enormously in how much they check. one wanted a video call and photographs and one wanted almost nothing
snapshot not fact
when i checked last year my local specialist service was quoting eighteen months to two years, and that was for a first appointment
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a member in dublin said their pharmacy supply was steadier than mine in england, which surprised both of us
everything in this channel about pricing is a snapshot. read any figure here as the month somebody typed it
coming back after 5 months, is the nhs picture any better
20:58marrow.mod pinned a message
driving never came up for me at all and i would ask a clinician rather than take my word on it, not advice obviously
a private prescription in the uk was dispensable at any pharmacy willing to take it, in my experience of it
supply was upstream
wales was reported in here as slower to get started and steadier once you were in, and that was second hand
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update from 11 months ago: my clinic price went up by £185 and the supply steadied in the same month, anyway