[Discussion] can we stop arguing about MHRA until somebody posts a number
Asking properly rather than in a comment on somebody else’s thread: can we stop arguing about MHRA until somebody posts a number.
Discharged at goal back to the GP, who would not continue it. Nobody had mentioned that this was how it ends.
Switched pharmacies mid-titration and had to restart the ladder because the concentrations did not line up.
Read the MHRA notice rather than the news coverage and the actual scope was much narrower than the panic threads suggested.
Ask me anything specific. Anything general I will probably get wrong.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
That is the first-month offer price, not the ongoing monthly cost. The tracker records the second one.
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 product, same month. The spread was larger than I expected and none of them were the headline offer.
Four pharmacies, four prices, same product, same month.
Disagreeing with this line: that is the arrangement in one nation and the question is about another.
Same. My ICB threshold was different from the neighbouring one and nobody could tell me why.
Added a nation tag — the answers to this question differ across the four.
Disagree. That is the pathway in one ICB and it does not generalise even to the next one over.
Disagree.
ines_lindqvist is right that the two routes are separate. A private prescription does not move you up the list.
Added a nation tag — the answers to this question differ across the four.
Agreed — and keeping the letters with dates is what makes any later challenge possible.
the ICB decides the threshold and they are not the same across England
Careful, that pricing figure is a headline offer with conditions attached rather than the actual monthly cost.
no referral links, ever, and that rule is why the pricing threads work
the Irish scheme cap is the single most useful fact in this board
I would not read a supply notice as a shortage in your pharmacy tomorrow. They are not the same thing.
I would not read a supply notice as a shortage in your pharmacy tomorrow.
Adding the practical bit — ask what happens at discharge before you start, not after.
Small fix — that is the Scottish pathway. The post is asking about England and the answer is different.
GP said no in the spring, specialist said yes eighteen months later. Same person, same numbers.
I would not read a supply notice as a shortage in your pharmacy tomorrow.
This is why national advice does not work here. It is commissioned locally and it varies.
Not convinced — the US threads are a different system entirely and importing their advice here does real harm.
private prescription pricing moves monthly and the pharmacy is most of the spread
Push back: a private prescription is a separate route, not a shortcut through the NHS queue.
The scheme cap in Ireland was the single most useful thing I learned in a year of reading this board.
Correction: that threshold is your ICB’s, not a national one. They differ and they change by year.
The online consultation asked me three questions, none of them about my history. I did not go ahead.
Yes — four nations, four pathways, and threads that ignore that give people the wrong answer confidently.
That is Scotland’s arrangement and the post is asking about England.
ask the pharmacy for the price list, not the headline offer
GP said no and specialist said yes is a very common sequence
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