driving never came up for me at all and i would ask a clinician rather than take my word on it
#uk-ireland 2025-11-17
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- assay_not_purity — for the archive everything in this channel about pricing is a snapshot. read any figure here as the month somebody typed it, take that with a pinch of salt 10:44
- VialBot — Reminder for step_one_sian: dose day is today. Set 3 days ago. 11:42
- see_a_clinician — is the irish price genuinely higher or is that a currency thing the honest position on uk policy is that it moved four times in the two years i have been paying… 12:43
- see_a_clinician — off label and unlicensed get used interchangeably in here and they are different. off label is a licensed product used outside its licence, still working it out 13:31
- see_a_clinician — i moved from private to nhs and the handover was messy. one experience in one area, nothing more than that, anyway 13:59
what happens at the end of the two years on the nhs route
ask your gp
quick one border force stopped a parcel of mine and sent a letter, and that was the whole of it. no follow up and no knock at the door
vat was not charged on the private prescription i saw, but i am the wrong person to ask about tax
scotland ran a different process from england when i looked into it, and a member there reported a shorter wait
check, dont trust me
for the archive everything in this channel about pricing is a snapshot. read any figure here as the month somebody typed it, take that with a pinch of salt
unlicensed isnt illegal
ireland runs its own reimbursement system and as best i understood it a year ago the picture there was less generous than people expect
anyone moved from a private clinic to nhs or the other way round
is vat charged on a private prescription in the uk
unlicensed in mhra terms means there is no uk marketing authorisation for that product. it is not the same as illegal and it is not the same as approved
an irish member told me their out of pocket cost was noticeably higher than the uk equivalent when they compared in 2024
coming back to this has anyone been asked for id at a pharmacy counter for this
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
Reminder for step_one_sian: dose day is today. Set 3 days ago.
when i checked last year my local specialist service was quoting eighteen months to two years, and that was for a first appointment
a private prescription in the uk was dispensable at any pharmacy willing to take it, in my experience of it
scotland differs
the online clinics vary enormously in how much they check. one wanted a video call and photographs and one wanted almost nothing
whats the cheapest legitimate private route people have found in the uk
is the irish price genuinely higher or is that a currency thing
the honest position on uk policy is that it moved four times in the two years i have been paying attention
off label and unlicensed get used interchangeably in here and they are different. off label is a licensed product used outside its licence, still working it out
supply was upstream
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how much do the online clinics actually check
northern ireland has two sets of rules doesnt it, how does that work in practice
i would not repeat any of the nhs criteria as current fact, they were revised at least once since i last read them
there was a two year limit in the nhs guidance i read. what happened at the end of it was not clear to me then and may be clearer now
member reported only
that was 2024
the pharmacy gap in my area lasted about six weeks when i went through it, and it was member reported as nationwide at the time
prices have moved since
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i moved from private to nhs and the handover was messy. one experience in one area, nothing more than that, anyway
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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
member reported tier 3 waits in england were all over the place, from nine months to nearly three years, as of about a year ago
snapshot not fact