nobody here can tell you what your gp will do. the variation between practices is the whole story in england, still working it out
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#uk-ireland 2026-05-05
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Highlights from this day
- private_script_pri — update from 5 months ago: my clinic price went up by £38 and the supply steadied in the same month, happy to be corrected 17:23
- bea_reconstitutes — is a private prescription transferable between pharmacies 19:01
- private_script_pri — 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 20:12
wales was reported in here as slower to get started and steadier once you were in, and that was second hand
does anyone know whether the shortage list is public
right so is the irish price genuinely higher or is that a currency thing
off label and unlicensed get used interchangeably in here and they are different. off label is a licensed product used outside its licence
is the pharmacy supply gap the manufacturer or the wholesalers
scotland differs
northern ireland has two sets of rules doesnt it, how does that work in practice
update from 5 months ago: my clinic price went up by £38 and the supply steadied in the same month, happy to be corrected
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supply was upstream
snapshot not fact
how many pharmacies do people ring before giving up for the day
ireland runs its own reimbursement system and as best i understood it a year ago the picture there was less generous than people expect, take that with a pinch of salt
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pharmacy has had nothing for three weeks, is that everywhere or just my bit of the country
ireland is separate
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the mhra publishes supply notices. whether your pharmacy has read them is an entirely separate matter
has anyone been asked for id at a pharmacy counter for this
i moved from private to nhs and the handover was messy. one experience in one area, nothing more than that, still working it out
is the picture in ireland completely separate on reimbursement
sorry to jump in the criteria included a bmi threshold plus comorbidities when i read them, and they have been revised since, so check rather than trust me
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
driving never came up for me at all and i would ask a clinician rather than take my word on it
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, anyway
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
the tier 3 referral needed my gp to actually make it, and that turned out to be harder than meeting the criteria
is a private prescription transferable between pharmacies
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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
i paid €185 a month at a private clinic in 2024 and the price went up twice while i was with them, thats one data point
vat was not charged on the private prescription i saw, but i am the wrong person to ask about tax
is vat charged on a private prescription in the uk
slightly off topic but anyone in ireland willing to compare what theyre paying
off label and unlicensed get used interchangeably in here and they are different. off label is a licensed product used outside its licence
a private prescription in the uk was dispensable at any pharmacy willing to take it, in my experience of it, for what its worth
i rang eleven pharmacies and the twelfth had it. that was one winter, and it is not a strategy
unlicensed isnt illegal
whats the position on driving, is there anything anyone had to declare
unrelated but the honest position on uk policy is that it moved four times in the two years i have been paying attention
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
ring more pharmacies
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
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check, dont trust me
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the online clinics vary enormously in how much they check. one wanted a video call and photographs and one wanted almost nothing
i would not repeat any of the nhs criteria as current fact, they were revised at least once since i last read them, i have it written down somewhere
everything in this channel about pricing is a snapshot. read any figure here as the month somebody typed it
did anyone get through the nhs route and how long was it end to end
what happens at the end of the two years on the nhs route
member reported only