[Meta] proposal — a flair for tier 3 posts
proposal — a flair for tier 3 posts. Comments open, and the wording is genuinely up for discussion.
The scheme cap in Ireland was the single most useful thing I learned in a year of reading this board.
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.
Happy to answer the boring questions. Those are usually the ones worth asking.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Concentrations can differ between products and between pharmacies. Switching mid-titration means redoing the arithmetic rather than carrying the old unit count across.
private prescription pricing moves monthly and the pharmacy is most of the spread
NHS pathway or private prescription?
BMI thresholds vary by ICB and by year
no referral links, ever, and that rule is why the pricing threads work
the price difference between pharmacies this month is genuinely large
keep every letter, the dates matter later
tier 3 waiting lists are measured in years, not months
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are four different pathways
private and NHS pathways are not a ladder, they are separate routes
Push back: a private prescription is a separate route, not a shortcut through the NHS queue.
That is Scotland’s arrangement and the post is asking about England.
Supply notices from the regulator describe expected availability at a national level. They do not predict what any individual pharmacy has on the shelf next week.
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.
the ICB decides the threshold and they are not the same across England
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