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c/glp1uk·submitted 1 months ago by u/ahmed_okafor

why does nobody talk about private prescription

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The title is the whole question — why does nobody talk about private prescription — but here is why I am asking. Concentrations can differ between products and between pharmacies. Switching mid-titration means redoing the arithmetic rather than carrying the old unit count across. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland…

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u/hassan_chowdhury68 points·1 months ago

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.

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u/elise_ramos55 points·1 months ago

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.

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u/ravi_sandvik14 points·1 months ago·edited

no referral links, ever, and that rule is why the pricing threads work

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u/slow_logbook8 points·29 days ago·edited

Discharged at goal back to the GP, who would not continue it. Nobody had mentioned that this was how it ends.

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u/camila_marchand46 points·1 months ago

That is the first-month offer price, not the ongoing monthly cost. The tracker records the second one.

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u/ahmed_okaforOP-22 points·1 months ago

That is the first-month offer price, not the ongoing monthly cost.

camila_marchand is right that the two routes are separate. A private prescription does not move you up the list.

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u/marisol_moreau1 point·29 days ago

GP said no in the spring, specialist said yes eighteen months later. Same person, same numbers.

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u/marit_mensa17 points·29 days ago

England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are four different pathways

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u/tomas_lehtinen7 points·29 days ago

Right, and reading the actual supply notice rather than the coverage of it saves a fortnight of speculation.

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