northern ireland has two sets of rules doesnt it, how does that work in practice
#uk-ireland 2026-03-19
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Highlights from this day
- belfast_bac — 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 20:56
- swab_dry_first — 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 21:12
- no_appetite_nia — the online clinics vary enormously in how much they check. one wanted a video call and photographs and one wanted almost nothing 22:10
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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
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did anyone get through the nhs route and how long was it end to end
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*VendorInvestigate not the other one
driving never came up for me at all and i would ask a clinician rather than take my word on it
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
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a private prescription in the uk was dispensable at any pharmacy willing to take it, in my experience of it
snapshot not fact
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anyone in scotland or wales finding it different from england
when i checked last year my local specialist service was quoting eighteen months to two years, and that was for a first appointment
did anyone get a tier 3 referral without a bmi over 35
supply was upstream
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how much do the online clinics actually check
ireland runs its own reimbursement system and as best i understood it a year ago the picture there was less generous than people expect
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
ring more pharmacies
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pharmacy has had nothing for three weeks, is that everywhere or just my bit of the country
as of when i last looked, nhs access ran through specialist weight management services and the criteria were tight
off label and unlicensed get used interchangeably in here and they are different. off label is a licensed product used outside its licence
the online clinics vary enormously in how much they check. one wanted a video call and photographs and one wanted almost nothing
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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
whats the cheapest legitimate private route people have found in the uk
that was last year
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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
how long is the nhs specialist weight management wait where people are, mine was quoted at two years
the honest position on uk policy is that it moved four times in the two years i have been paying attention
off label is different
that was 2024