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c/glp1uk·posted 3 days ago by u/bence_ibarra

[Pricing] UK private prescription pricing, monthly tracker, no affiliate links

Pricing Long Haul ×6

Something I keep coming back to: UK private prescription pricing, monthly tracker, no affiliate links.

Supply notices from the regulator describe expected availability at a national level. They do not predict what any individual pharmacy has on the shelf next week.

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.

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.

If somebody has the same thing measured a different way, post it next to mine and we will see whether they agree.

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u/boots_or_bustMOD24 points·2 days ago

Added a nation tag — the answers to this question differ across the four.

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u/curious_panel_only19 points·3 days ago·edited

A private prescription is an independent route: it does not affect NHS list position, and it is not a step in the same pathway.

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u/ms_fragmenter15 points·3 days ago

Which nation, and which ICB if you are in England?

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u/bence_ibarraOP8 points·3 days ago·edited

the Irish scheme cap is the single most useful fact in this board

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u/sock_puppet_spotter9 points·2 days ago

Is this a discharge back to the GP, or a discontinuation?

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u/bence_ibarraOP5 points·2 days ago

How long have you been on the list, and from what date?

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u/bence_ibarraOP3 points·2 days ago

Have you seen the current threshold published by your ICB?

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u/bence_ibarra1 point·2 days ago·edited

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/nordic_pricing9 points·3 days ago

Not convinced — the US threads are a different system entirely and importing their advice here does real harm.

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