[Meta] proposal — a flair for private prescription posts
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…
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.
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.
Which nation, and which ICB if you are in England?
Which nation, and which ICB if you are in England?
Agreed — and keeping the letters with dates is what makes any later challenge possible.
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.
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.
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.
NHS pathway or private prescription?
tier 3 waiting lists are measured in years, not months
NHS pathway or private prescription?
Disagreeing with this line: that is the arrangement in one nation and the question is about another.
Small fix — that is the Scottish pathway. The post is asking about England and the answer is different.
Correction: that threshold is your ICB’s, not a national one. They differ and they change by year.