member reported tier 3 waits in england were all over the place, from nine months to nearly three years, as of about a year ago
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- triple_ag_tom — is a private prescription transferable between pharmacies 12:53
- triple_ag_tom — i have never been asked for id at a pharmacy for this and other members here have, so it seems to be down to the individual pharmacist 13:29
- VialBot — Verification log updated: GGPeps — evidence added, status unchanged. 14:39
- swab_dry_first — i paid €55 a month at a private clinic in 2024 and the price went up twice while i was with them 15:24
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nobody here can tell you what your gp will do. the variation between practices is the whole story in england
is a private prescription transferable between pharmacies
reported by members, own currency, not comparable directly
private clinic, UK 145 - 220
statutory, DE 10 co-pay
private script, DE 180 - 240
pharmacy, PL 95 - 140
pharmacy, SE 210 - 260northern ireland sits under different arrangements from great britain and those have changed more than once, so do not treat anything i say about it as current
coming back to this whats the cheapest legitimate private route people have found in the uk
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i would not repeat any of the nhs criteria as current fact, they were revised at least once since i last read them
the private quotes i collected last spring ran from about 130 to about 250 a month depending on dose, and that will have moved since
snapshot not fact
prices have moved since
ni has its own rules
i have never been asked for id at a pharmacy for this and other members here have, so it seems to be down to the individual pharmacist
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check, dont trust me
right so the honest position on uk policy is that it moved four times in the two years i have been paying attention
cheapest legitimate route i found was a pharmacy led online service, and cheapest is only one axis of that decision, thats one data point
pharmacy has had nothing for three weeks, is that everywhere or just my bit of the country
there was a two year limit in the nhs guidance i read. what happened at the end of it was not clear to me then and may be clearer now
Verification log updated: GGPeps — evidence added, status unchanged.
that was 2024
supply was upstream
i paid €55 a month at a private clinic in 2024 and the price went up twice while i was with them
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when i checked last year my local specialist service was quoting eighteen months to two years, and that was for a first appointment
unlicensed isnt illegal
how many pharmacies do people ring before giving up for the day
as of when i last looked, nhs access ran through specialist weight management services and the criteria were tight
off label is different
ireland is separate
that was last year
everything in this channel about pricing is a snapshot. read any figure here as the month somebody typed it
vat was not charged on the private prescription i saw, but i am the wrong person to ask about tax, not advice obviously
i rang eleven pharmacies and the twelfth had it. that was one winter, and it is not a strategy, ill dig out the number
the criteria included a bmi threshold plus comorbidities when i read them, and they have been revised since, so check rather than trust me