[Discussion] we are measuring private prescription at the wrong time and calling it noise
Thinking out loud about this: we are measuring private prescription at the wrong time and calling it noise. The online consultation asked me three questions, none of them about my history. I did not go ahead. Read the MHRA notice rather than the news coverage and the actual scope was much narrower than the panic…
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 your ICB. Criteria, waiting times and what happens at discharge are all local decisions, which is why a confident answer from somebody in a different area may be wrong for you.
The private route is an independent transaction: a consultation, a prescription and a pharmacy price. It does not affect your position on any NHS list and it is not a shortcut through one. Both are legitimate; they are simply not the same pathway and they do not connect.
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A private prescription is an independent route: it does not affect NHS list position, and it is not a step in the same pathway.
the Irish scheme cap is the single most useful fact in this board
an online consultation that asks you nothing is not a consultation
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.