[Discussion] pricing is doing more work than we give it credit for
pricing is doing more work than we give it credit for. It is the sort of thing everyone half-believes and nobody writes down.
Two years and four months on a tier 3 list. Referral date and every letter kept, which turned out to matter when the service reorganised.
Four pharmacies, four prices, same product, same month. The spread was larger than I expected and none of them were the headline offer.
GP said no in the spring, specialist said yes eighteen months later. Same person, same numbers.
Please do not ask me what dose you should be on. I genuinely do not know and neither does anyone else here.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Pharmacy pricing on a private prescription is set by the pharmacy. The spread between them in a given month is routinely substantial, which is why a tracker built from member reports is more useful than any headline.
Pharmacy pricing on a private prescription is set by the pharmacy.
slow_logbook_notes is right that the two routes are separate. A private prescription does not move you up the list.
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.
NHS pathway or private prescription?
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Not convinced — the US threads are a different system entirely and importing their advice here does real harm.