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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- bpc_sceptic — wales was reported in here as slower to get started and steadier once you were in, and that was second hand 17:10
- bpc_sceptic — vat was not charged on the private prescription i saw, but i am the wrong person to ask about tax 17:34
- knees_first — gp said they cant prescribe it at all, is that national or a local budget thing 19:25
- swab_dry_first — coming back to this update from 11 months ago: my clinic price went up by €94 and the supply steadied in the same month 20:13
- slow.taper — did anyone get through the nhs route and how long was it end to end 21:29
anyone had a parcel stopped by border force and what actually happened next
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
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
prices have moved since
vat was not charged on the private prescription i saw, but i am the wrong person to ask about tax
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private clinic quoted me £120 a month, is that about right or am i being had
i rang eleven pharmacies and the twelfth had it. that was one winter, and it is not a strategy
off label is different
that was 2024
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snapshot not fact
ireland is separate
follow up whats the cheapest legitimate private route people have found in the uk
i paid £55 a month at a private clinic in 2024 and the price went up twice while i was with them
scotland differs
supply was upstream
coming back to this 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
the seizure letters members have had here have been letters and nothing else, but that is our sample rather than a guarantee
ireland runs its own reimbursement system and as best i understood it a year ago the picture there was less generous than people expect
the mhra publishes supply notices. whether your pharmacy has read them is an entirely separate matter
is the pharmacy supply gap the manufacturer or the wholesalers
anyone in ireland willing to compare what theyre paying
ask your gp
ni has its own rules
the criteria included a bmi threshold plus comorbidities when i read them, and they have been revised since, so check rather than trust me
a private prescription in the uk was dispensable at any pharmacy willing to take it, in my experience of it
the shortage was upstream of the pharmacies as far as anyone here could tell, and shouting at counter staff achieved nothing
i moved from private to nhs and the handover was messy. one experience in one area, nothing more than that
gp said they cant prescribe it at all, is that national or a local budget thing
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has anyone been asked for id at a pharmacy counter for this
the tier 3 referral needed my gp to actually make it, and that turned out to be harder than meeting the criteria
coming back to this update from 11 months ago: my clinic price went up by €94 and the supply steadied in the same month
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the honest position on uk policy is that it moved four times in the two years i have been paying attention
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
while im here 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
a member in dublin said their pharmacy supply was steadier than mine in england, which surprised both of us
just a letter
does the two year wait figure people quote come from anywhere real
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
unlicensed isnt illegal
did anyone get through the nhs route and how long was it end to end
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