what happens at the end of the two years on the nhs route
#uk-ireland 2026-01-08
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- tenpence — unrelated but the shortage was upstream of the pharmacies as far as anyone here could tell, and shouting at counter staff achieved nothing 18:51
- gall_bladder_gav — the criteria included a bmi threshold plus comorbidities when i read them, and they have been revised since, so check rather than trust me, happy to be corrected 18:53
- gall_bladder_gav — nobody here can tell you what your gp will do. the variation between practices is the whole story in england the tier 3 referral needed my gp to actually make it, and… 19:39
- no_appetite_nia — genuine question 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 20:54
- tenpence — ireland runs its own reimbursement system and as best i understood it a year ago the picture there was less generous than people expect 21:00
i would not repeat any of the nhs criteria as current fact, they were revised at least once since i last read them
unrelated but the shortage was upstream of the pharmacies as far as anyone here could tell, and shouting at counter staff achieved nothing
the criteria included a bmi threshold plus comorbidities when i read them, and they have been revised since, so check rather than trust me, happy to be corrected
reported by members, own currency, not comparable directly
private clinic, UK 145 - 220
statutory, DE 10 co-pay
private script, DE 180 - 240
pharmacy, PL 95 - 140
pharmacy, SE 210 - 260🙏3👍4
prices have moved since
nobody here can tell you what your gp will do. the variation between practices is the whole story in england
the tier 3 referral needed my gp to actually make it, and that turned out to be harder than meeting the criteria
for the archive update from 7 months ago: my clinic price went up by £55 and the supply steadied in the same month
how many pharmacies do people ring before giving up for the day
how much do the online clinics actually check
cheapest legitimate route i found was a pharmacy led online service, and cheapest is only one axis of that decision
driving never came up for me at all and i would ask a clinician rather than take my word on it
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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
i rang eleven pharmacies and the twelfth had it. that was one winter, and it is not a strategy
[edited]genuine question 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
as of when i last looked, nhs access ran through specialist weight management services and the criteria were tight
off label is different
ireland runs its own reimbursement system and as best i understood it a year ago the picture there was less generous than people expect