as of when i last looked, nhs access ran through specialist weight management services and the criteria were tight
#uk-ireland 2025-08-14
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- tarpit_tam — the shortage was upstream of the pharmacies as far as anyone here could tell, and shouting at counter staff achieved nothing 18:28
- dublin_dose — 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 18:45
- tarpit_tam — 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 i moved from private to nhs and… 19:36
- VialBot — Reminder for tarpit_tam: dose day is today. Set 5 days ago. 20:53
- taper_or_not — i would not repeat any of the nhs criteria as current fact, they were revised at least once since i last read them 21:35
ireland runs its own reimbursement system and as best i understood it a year ago the picture there was less generous than people expect
the mhra publishes supply notices. whether your pharmacy has read them is an entirely separate matter
the shortage was upstream of the pharmacies as far as anyone here could tell, and shouting at counter staff achieved nothing
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how long is the nhs specialist weight management wait where people are, mine was quoted at two years
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
ireland is separate
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the honest position on uk policy is that it moved four times in the two years i have been paying attention
is the pharmacy supply gap the manufacturer or the wholesalers
an irish member told me their out of pocket cost was noticeably higher than the uk equivalent when they compared in 2024
*Janoshik not the other one
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
i moved from private to nhs and the handover was messy. one experience in one area, nothing more than that
scotland ran a different process from england when i looked into it, and a member there reported a shorter wait
anyone in scotland or wales finding it different from england
a member in dublin said their pharmacy supply was steadier than mine in england, which surprised both of us
the online clinics vary enormously in how much they check. one wanted a video call and photographs and one wanted almost nothing
unlicensed isnt illegal
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i was wrong in here about what unlicensed meant for about six months until somebody sorted me out
Reminder for tarpit_tam: dose day is today. Set 5 days ago.
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is a private prescription transferable between pharmacies
update from 7 months ago: my clinic price went up by £38 and the supply steadied in the same month
i rang eleven pharmacies and the twelfth had it. that was one winter, and it is not a strategy
[edited]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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snapshot not fact