vat was not charged on the private prescription i saw, but i am the wrong person to ask about tax
#uk-ireland 2025-05-13
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- void_volume — i would not repeat any of the nhs criteria as current fact, they were revised at least once since i last read them 19:55
- slow.taper — the shortage was upstream of the pharmacies as far as anyone here could tell, and shouting at counter staff achieved nothing 19:58
- slow.taper — i was wrong in here about what unlicensed meant for about six months until somebody sorted me out 20:09
- VialBot — New independent result logged — SWB, lot B-0329, purity 99% (PeptideMeter). 21:30
- assay_not_purity — the mhra publishes supply notices. whether your pharmacy has read them is an entirely separate matter 22:24
ok so a member in dublin said their pharmacy supply was steadier than mine in england, which surprised both of us
sorry to jump in is the pharmacy supply gap the manufacturer or the wholesalers
northern 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, n of 1 obviously
border force stopped a parcel of mine and sent a letter, and that was the whole of it. no follow up and no knock at the door
ok so when i checked last year my local specialist service was quoting eighteen months to two years, and that was for a first appointment
nobody here can tell you what your gp will do. the variation between practices is the whole story in england
i moved from private to nhs and the handover was messy. one experience in one area, nothing more than that, thats one data point
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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
genuine question off label and unlicensed get used interchangeably in here and they are different. off label is a licensed product used outside its licence
whats the cheapest legitimate private route people have found in the uk
unlicensed isnt illegal
driving never came up for me at all and i would ask a clinician rather than take my word on it
prices have moved since
i would not repeat any of the nhs criteria as current fact, they were revised at least once since i last read them
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the shortage was upstream of the pharmacies as far as anyone here could tell, and shouting at counter staff achieved nothing
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
i was wrong in here about what unlicensed meant for about six months until somebody sorted me out
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member reported only
unrelated but the online clinics vary enormously in how much they check. one wanted a video call and photographs and one wanted almost nothing
as of when i last looked, nhs access ran through specialist weight management services and the criteria were tight
ok so pharmacy has had nothing for three weeks, is that everywhere or just my bit of the country
scotland ran a different process from england when i looked into it, and a member there reported a shorter wait
[edited]supply was upstream
[edited]that was 2024
follow up whats the position on driving, is there anything anyone had to declare
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that was last year
scotland differs
for the archive the seizure letters members have had here have been letters and nothing else, but that is our sample rather than a guarantee, ask me again in a month
the pharmacy gap in my area lasted about six weeks when i went through it, and it was member reported as nationwide at the time
did anyone get a tier 3 referral without a bmi over 35
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
as of when i last looked, nhs access ran through specialist weight management services and the criteria were tight
New independent result logged — SWB, lot B-0329, purity 99% (PeptideMeter).
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i rang eleven pharmacies and the twelfth had it. that was one winter, and it is not a strategy
wales was reported in here as slower to get started and steadier once you were in, and that was second hand
update from 9 months ago: my clinic price went up by €240 and the supply steadied in the same month
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
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the mhra publishes supply notices. whether your pharmacy has read them is an entirely separate matter
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coming back after 26 months, is the nhs picture any better
the tier 3 referral needed my gp to actually make it, and that turned out to be harder than meeting the criteria, still working it out
the honest position on uk policy is that it moved four times in the two years i have been paying attention