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c/glp1uk·submitted 2 years ago by u/ahmed_iyer

[Meta] proposal — a flair for private prescription posts

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proposal — a flair for private prescription posts, and it will stay as it is unless somebody makes the case to change it. The two routes, described separately, because mixing them is where most of the confusion here starts. The NHS route in England runs through specialist weight management services commissioned by…

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u/chidi_abubakar281 points·2 years ago

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.

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u/viktor_kirchner65 points·2 years ago

Supply notices from the regulator describe expected availability at a national level.

Adding the practical bit — ask what happens at discharge before you start, not after.

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u/ahmed_iyerOP224 points·2 years ago

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

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u/sten_bhattacharya153 points·2 years ago

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

Agreed — and keeping the letters with dates is what makes any later challenge possible.

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u/not_my_main_nm62 points·2 years ago

Agreed — and keeping the letters with dates is what makes any later challenge possible.

sten_bhattacharya is right that the two routes are separate. A private prescription does not move you up the list.

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u/lane_watchermod · logistics41 points·2 years ago·edited

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.

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u/hassan_castellanos0 points·2 years ago

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

This is why national advice does not work here. It is commissioned locally and it varies.

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u/lina_almeida-17 points·2 years ago

NHS pathway or private prescription?

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u/clara_danquah1 point·2 years ago

tier 3 waiting lists are measured in years, not months

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u/ferran_mensah1 point·2 years ago

NHS pathway or private prescription?

Disagreeing with this line: that is the arrangement in one nation and the question is about another.

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u/viktor_kirchner1 point·2 years ago·edited

Small fix — that is the Scottish pathway. The post is asking about England and the answer is different.

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u/elise_ramos1 point·2 years ago

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

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