[Question] France — has anyone got a straight answer on UK
Question in the title, detail here: France — has anyone got a straight answer on UK.
In England, specialist weight management services are commissioned locally, so eligibility criteria and waiting times differ by ICB. There is no single national threshold to quote.
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.
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.
Screenshot none of this. Read the whole thread, including the parts where I am told I am wrong.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
Discharged at goal back to the GP, who would not continue it. Nobody had mentioned that this was how it ends.
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.
Is this a discharge back to the GP, or a discontinuation?
Read the MHRA notice rather than the news coverage and the actual scope was much narrower than the panic threads suggested.
Pharmacy staff name removed. The pharmacy itself can be named in a pricing post.
NHS pathway or private prescription?
no referral links, ever, and that rule is why the pricing threads work
Two years and four months on a tier 3 list. Referral date and every letter kept, which turned out to matter when the service reorganised.
Did the consultation ask about history and medication?
GP said no in the spring, specialist said yes eighteen months later. Same person, same numbers.
discharge at goal back to the GP is where a lot of people fall over
Push back: a private prescription is a separate route, not a shortcut through the NHS queue.
Not convinced — the US threads are a different system entirely and importing their advice here does real harm.
the Irish scheme cap is the single most useful fact in this board