[Question] Australia — has anyone got a straight answer on tier 3
Australia — has anyone got a straight answer on tier 3. I would rather ask a basic question now than get this wrong quietly for two months. 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. Four pharmacies, four prices, same…
ask the pharmacy for the price list, not the headline offer
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.
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.
GP said no and specialist said yes is a very common sequence
This. The monthly pricing tracker is the most useful thing on this board and it works because nobody is allowed to link anything.
Careful, that pricing figure is a headline offer with conditions attached rather than the actual monthly cost.
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are four different pathways