[Discussion] the private prescription advice in here is 2 years out of date
the private prescription advice in here is 2 years out of date. It is the sort of thing everyone half-believes and nobody writes down. Hard numbers: 2 years. Anything softer than that is flagged as an impression. Four pharmacies, four prices, same product, same month. The spread was larger than I expected and none of…
The two routes, described separately, because mixing them is where most of the confusion here starts.
The NHS route in England runs through specialist weight management services commissioned by your ICB. Criteria, waiting times and what happens at discharge are all local decisions, which is why a confident answer from somebody in a different area may be wrong for you.
The private route is an independent transaction: a consultation, a prescription and a pharmacy price. It does not affect your position on any NHS list and it is not a shortcut through one. Both are legitimate; they are simply not the same pathway and they do not connect.
the price difference between pharmacies this month is genuinely large
private and NHS pathways are not a ladder, they are separate routes
Disagree. That is the pathway in one ICB and it does not generalise even to the next one over.
Left up. It names a nation and an ICB, which is all we ask of a pathway post.
How long have you been on the list, and from what date?
Correction: that threshold is your ICB’s, not a national one. They differ and they change by year.
ask the pharmacy for the price list, not the headline offer