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c/glp1uk·posted 2 months ago by u/ahmed_okafor

[Discussion] the UK advice in here is 3 years out of date

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the UK advice in here is 3 years out of date. Not a hot take, just something I have not seen said plainly here.

3 years — those are the numbers, and they are the ones I am willing to defend.

Pharmacy pricing on a private prescription is set by the pharmacy. The spread between them in a given month is routinely substantial, which is why a tracker built from member reports is more useful than any headline.

Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own arrangements. An answer that begins with "in England" should say so, and most of the confusion here comes from answers that do not.

Sceptical readings welcome. The confident ones are the ones I distrust.

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u/dario_stanescu43 points·2 months ago

Discharge from a specialist service at goal is a normal end point of that pathway. Whether prescribing continues in primary care afterwards is a local decision and is worth asking about at the start rather than at the end.

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u/zaid_balogun32 points·2 months ago·edited

I would not read a supply notice as a shortage in your pharmacy tomorrow. They are not the same thing.

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u/emil_wojcik-36 points·2 months ago

tier 3 waiting lists are measured in years, not months

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u/sten_bhattacharya-42 points·2 months ago

Read the MHRA notice rather than the news coverage and the actual scope was much narrower than the panic threads suggested.

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u/hassan_castellanos1 point·2 months ago

That is Scotland’s arrangement and the post is asking about England.

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u/hsa_math1 point·2 months ago

Yes — four nations, four pathways, and threads that ignore that give people the wrong answer confidently.

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u/rina_nascimento17 points·2 months ago

Careful, that pricing figure is a headline offer with conditions attached rather than the actual monthly cost.

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