the online clinics vary enormously in how much they check. one wanted a video call and photographs and one wanted almost nothing
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#uk-ireland 2025-09-14
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- knees_first — the online clinics vary enormously in how much they check. one wanted a video call and photographs and one wanted almost nothing 15:08
- meal_prep_mick — 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 16:25
- reship_rita — the tier 3 referral needed my gp to actually make it, and that turned out to be harder than meeting the criteria off label and unlicensed get used interchangeably in… 20:05
private clinic quoted me $72 a month, is that about right or am i being had
ok so does anyone know whether the shortage list is public
ok so the shortage was upstream of the pharmacies as far as anyone here could tell, and shouting at counter staff achieved nothing
anyone moved from a private clinic to nhs or the other way round
update from 8 months ago: my clinic price went up by £120 and the supply steadied in the same month, we shall see
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
the seizure letters members have had here have been letters and nothing else, but that is our sample rather than a guarantee
pharmacy has had nothing for three weeks, is that everywhere or just my bit of the country
the mhra publishes supply notices. whether your pharmacy has read them is an entirely separate matter
i rang eleven pharmacies and the twelfth had it. that was one winter, and it is not a strategy
vat was not charged on the private prescription i saw, but i am the wrong person to ask about tax
everything in this channel about pricing is a snapshot. read any figure here as the month somebody typed it
that was last year
a private prescription in the uk was dispensable at any pharmacy willing to take it, in my experience of it
how many pharmacies do people ring before giving up for the day
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
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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
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
quick one scotland ran a different process from england when i looked into it, and a member there reported a shorter wait
slightly off topic but what happens at the end of the two years on the nhs route
gp said they cant prescribe it at all, is that national or a local budget thing
is vat charged on a private prescription in the uk
[edited]off label is different
is the irish price genuinely higher or is that a currency thing
whats the position on driving, is there anything anyone had to declare
check, dont trust me
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, thats just me
coming back after 4 months, is the nhs picture any better
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ireland is separate
i paid €94 a month at a private clinic in 2024 and the price went up twice while i was with them
member reported only
mine was 18 months
while im here ireland runs its own reimbursement system and as best i understood it a year ago the picture there was less generous than people expect
quick one did anyone get a tier 3 referral without a bmi over 35
i was wrong in here about what unlicensed meant for about six months until somebody sorted me out
i moved from private to nhs and the handover was messy. one experience in one area, nothing more than that
that was 2024
driving never came up for me at all and i would ask a clinician rather than take my word on it, take that with a pinch of salt
unlicensed in mhra terms means there is no uk marketing authorisation for that product. it is not the same as illegal and it is not the same as approved
scotland differs
is the picture in ireland completely separate on reimbursement
follow up nobody here can tell you what your gp will do. the variation between practices is the whole story in england, still working it out
snapshot not fact
northern ireland has two sets of rules doesnt it, how does that work in practice
did anyone get through the nhs route and how long was it end to end
the tier 3 referral needed my gp to actually make it, and that turned out to be harder than meeting the criteria
off label and unlicensed get used interchangeably in here and they are different. off label is a licensed product used outside its licence
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as of when i last looked, nhs access ran through specialist weight management services and the criteria were tight