[Pricing] £129 to £189 for the same thing across four pharmacies this month
Thinking out loud about this: £129 to £189 for the same thing across four pharmacies this month.
The numbers the title promised, since a headline without them is worthless: £129 and £189. Everything below is context for those.
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.
A private prescription is an independent route: it does not affect NHS list position, and it is not a step in the same pathway.
That is everything I have. The rest is opinion and I have tried to keep it out.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own arrangements. An answer that begins with "in England" should say so, and most of the confusion here comes from answers that do not.
How long have you been on the list, and from what date?
What did the referral letter actually say?
Same. My ICB threshold was different from the neighbouring one and nobody could tell me why.
Disagree. That is the pathway in one ICB and it does not generalise even to the next one over.
specialist service, not GP, for tier 3 in most of England
That is the first-month offer price, not the ongoing monthly cost. The tracker records the second one.
Read the MHRA notice rather than the news coverage and the actual scope was much narrower than the panic threads suggested.
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.
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This. The monthly pricing tracker is the most useful thing on this board and it works because nobody is allowed to link anything.
GP said no in the spring, specialist said yes eighteen months later. Same person, same numbers.
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.
Correction: that threshold is your ICB’s, not a national one. They differ and they change by year.
Four pharmacies, four prices, same product, same month. The spread was larger than I expected and none of them were the headline offer.
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.
Small fix — that is the Scottish pathway. The post is asking about England and the answer is different.
The online consultation asked me three questions, none of them about my history. I did not go ahead.
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