genuine question about MHRA that I am slightly embarrassed to ask
genuine question about MHRA that I am slightly embarrassed to ask, and I want the answer with the reasoning attached rather than just the conclusion.
GP said no in the spring, specialist said yes eighteen months later. Same person, same numbers.
Concentrations can differ between products and between pharmacies. Switching mid-titration means redoing the arithmetic rather than carrying the old unit count across.
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.
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.
Is this a discharge back to the GP, or a discontinuation?
Small fix — that is the Scottish pathway. The post is asking about England and the answer is different.
I would not read a supply notice as a shortage in your pharmacy tomorrow. They are not the same thing.
Switched pharmacies mid-titration and had to restart the ladder because the concentrations did not line up.
Switched pharmacies mid-titration and had to restart the ladder because the concentrations did not line up.
Disagreeing with this line: that is the arrangement in one nation and the question is about another.
specialist service, not GP, for tier 3 in most of England
Correction: that threshold is your ICB’s, not a national one. They differ and they change by year.
an online consultation that asks you nothing is not a consultation
Referral link removed and the post left up. No links of any kind here, and that rule is not negotiable.
Same. My ICB threshold was different from the neighbouring one and nobody could tell me why.
Why the monthly pricing tracker works, and the rule that makes it work.
Members post the pharmacy, the product, the month and the price they actually paid — not an advertised offer, not a first-month discount. No links of any kind are permitted, which removes the entire incentive to post anything other than what happened.
The result is that the spread between pharmacies in a given month is visible, and it is consistently larger than people expect. That single table has saved members here more money than every other thread on the board combined, and it survives only because the no-links rule is enforced without exception.
Have you seen the current threshold published by your ICB?
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are four different pathways
NHS pathway or private prescription?
That is the first-month offer price, not the ongoing monthly cost. The tracker records the second one.