does pricing actually matter or is it forum lore at this point
Asking properly rather than in a comment on somebody else’s thread: does pricing actually matter or is it forum lore at this point.
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.
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.
Concentrations can differ between products and between pharmacies. Switching mid-titration means redoing the arithmetic rather than carrying the old unit count across.
Corrections welcome, especially the pedantic ones. Pedantry is how this board earns its reputation.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
Yes — four nations, four pathways, and threads that ignore that give people the wrong answer confidently.
GP said no in the spring, specialist said yes eighteen months later. Same person, same numbers.
Yes — four nations, four pathways, and threads that ignore that give people the wrong answer confidently.
Disagreeing with this line: that is the arrangement in one nation and the question is about another.
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are four different pathways
the ICB decides the threshold and they are not the same across England
Have you seen the current threshold published by your ICB?
tier 3 waiting lists are measured in years, not months
Small fix — that is the Scottish pathway. The post is asking about England and the answer is different.
Pharmacy staff name removed. The pharmacy itself can be named in a pricing post.
Read the MHRA notice rather than the news coverage and the actual scope was much narrower than the panic threads suggested.
Four pharmacies, four prices, same product, same month. The spread was larger than I expected and none of them were the headline offer.
Agreed on keeping letters. Dates are what make an appeal or a re-referral possible.
Agreed. The ICB variation is the thing that makes national advice useless here.
Agreed.
Agreed — and keeping the letters with dates is what makes any later challenge possible.
That is Scotland’s arrangement and the post is asking about England.
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