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c/glp1uk·submitted 9 days ago by u/zaid_balogun

[Pricing] £129 to £189 for the same thing across four pharmacies this month

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Thinking out loud about this: £129 to £189 for the same thing across four pharmacies this month. The numbers the title promised, since a headline without them is worthless: £129 and £189. Everything below is context for those. In England, specialist weight management services are commissioned locally, so eligibility…

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u/tomas_lehtinen7 points·8 days ago

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.

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u/ravi_sandvik4 points·7 days ago

This. The monthly pricing tracker is the most useful thing on this board and it works because nobody is allowed to link anything.

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u/zaid_balogunOP2 points·7 days ago

GP said no in the spring, specialist said yes eighteen months later. Same person, same numbers.

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u/lane_watchermod · logistics6 points·8 days 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/marisol_moreau4 points·7 days ago·edited

Correction: that threshold is your ICB’s, not a national one. They differ and they change by year.

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