[Question] Ireland — has anyone got a straight answer on pharmacy
Ireland — has anyone got a straight answer on pharmacy. Searched first, found three threads that contradict each other, hence the post.
A private prescription is an independent route: it does not affect NHS list position, and it is not a step in the same pathway.
Why the monthly pricing tracker works, and the rule that makes it work.
Members post the pharmacy, the product, the month and the price they actually paid — not an advertised offer, not a first-month discount. No links of any kind are permitted, which removes the entire incentive to post anything other than what happened.
The result is that the spread between pharmacies in a given month is visible, and it is consistently larger than people expect. That single table has saved members here more money than every other thread on the board combined, and it survives only because the no-links rule is enforced without exception.
Discharge at goal, which nobody warns people about.
Specialist services in England are commissioned to deliver a defined intervention. Reaching goal is a successful outcome and it typically ends with discharge back to primary care. Whether prescribing continues after that is a local decision that varies, and plenty of members here have discovered it at the point of discharge rather than at the start.
The useful thing to do is ask early: what happens when I finish, and does prescribing continue in primary care in this area. Ask it in writing, keep the answer, and you will at least know which conversation you are heading for.
Sceptical readings welcome. The confident ones are the ones I distrust.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
Discharge from a specialist service at goal is a normal end point of that pathway.
This is why national advice does not work here. It is commissioned locally and it varies.
The online consultation asked me three questions, none of them about my history. I did not go ahead.
Switched pharmacies mid-titration and had to restart the ladder because the concentrations did not line up.
I would not read a supply notice as a shortage in your pharmacy tomorrow. They are not the same thing.
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.
Added a nation tag — the answers to this question differ across the four.
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specialist service, not GP, for tier 3 in most of England
tier 3 waiting lists are measured in years, not months
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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