[Meta] the tier 3 rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining
the tier 3 rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining, and it will stay as it is unless somebody makes the case to change it. 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…
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.
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.
Switched pharmacies mid-titration and had to restart the ladder because the concentrations did not line up.
the Irish scheme cap is the single most useful fact in this board
Yes — four nations, four pathways, and threads that ignore that give people the wrong answer confidently.
The scheme cap in Ireland was the single most useful thing I learned in a year of reading this board.
Read the MHRA notice rather than the news coverage and the actual scope was much narrower than the panic threads suggested.
I would not read a supply notice as a shortage in your pharmacy tomorrow. They are not the same thing.