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c/glp1uk·posted 2 months ago by u/marisol_kravchenko

[Discussion] the pricing advice in here is 2 years out of date

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the pricing advice in here is 2 years out of date — a position I have arrived at slowly and would like tested.

Numbers, in the order they matter: 2 years.

Switched pharmacies mid-titration and had to restart the ladder because the concentrations did not line up.

Read the MHRA notice rather than the news coverage and the actual scope was much narrower than the panic threads suggested.

Screenshot none of this. Read the whole thread, including the parts where I am told I am wrong.

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u/chidi_abubakar124 points·2 months ago

Discharge from a specialist service at goal is a normal end point of that pathway. Whether prescribing continues in primary care afterwards is a local decision and is worth asking about at the start rather than at the end.

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u/mei_cardoso20 points·2 months ago·edited

I would not read a supply notice as a shortage in your pharmacy tomorrow. They are not the same thing.

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u/vitamin_d_void50 points·2 months ago

How long have you been on the list, and from what date?

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u/sten_bhattacharya140 points·2 months ago

BMI thresholds vary by ICB and by year

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u/ireland_drugs_payMOD67 points·2 months ago·edited

Added a nation tag — the answers to this question differ across the four.

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u/pavel_kravchenko55 points·2 months ago

keep every letter, the dates matter later

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u/jarno_karlsen71 points·2 months ago

Cosigning on discharge at goal. It catches people who have done everything right and did not know it was coming.

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u/milan_wikstrom-5 points·2 months ago

In England, specialist weight management services are commissioned locally, so eligibility criteria and waiting times differ by ICB. There is no single national threshold to quote.

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u/halima_boateng1 point·2 months ago

GP said no in the spring, specialist said yes eighteen months later. Same person, same numbers.

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u/osman_eriksen83 points·2 months ago

Concentrations can differ between products and between pharmacies. Switching mid-titration means redoing the arithmetic rather than carrying the old unit count across.

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u/not_my_main_nm58 points·2 months ago

Which pharmacy, and what did they quote for the month rather than the first month?

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u/lane_map_larrylogistics69 points·2 months ago

A private prescription is an independent route: it does not affect NHS list position, and it is not a step in the same pathway.

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u/emil_wojcik82 points·2 months ago

private and NHS pathways are not a ladder, they are separate routes

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u/lane_watchermod · logistics121 points·2 months ago

an online consultation that asks you nothing is not a consultation

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