[Discussion] the private prescription advice in here is 2 years out of date
the private prescription advice in here is 2 years out of date. It is the sort of thing everyone half-believes and nobody writes down.
Hard numbers: 2 years. Anything softer than that is flagged as an impression.
Four pharmacies, four prices, same product, same month. The spread was larger than I expected and none of them were the headline offer.
GP said no in the spring, specialist said yes eighteen months later. Same person, same numbers.
I will update this if the picture changes rather than quietly leaving it up.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
the price difference between pharmacies this month is genuinely large
private and NHS pathways are not a ladder, they are separate routes
Disagree. That is the pathway in one ICB and it does not generalise even to the next one over.
Left up. It names a nation and an ICB, which is all we ask of a pathway post.
How long have you been on the list, and from what date?
Correction: that threshold is your ICB’s, not a national one. They differ and they change by year.
ask the pharmacy for the price list, not the headline offer
The scheme cap in Ireland was the single most useful thing I learned in a year of reading this board.
Discharged at goal back to the GP, who would not continue it. Nobody had mentioned that this was how it ends.
Right, and reading the actual supply notice rather than the coverage of it saves a fortnight of speculation.
Concentrations can differ between products and between pharmacies. Switching mid-titration means redoing the arithmetic rather than carrying the old unit count across.
no referral links, ever, and that rule is why the pricing threads work
tier 3 waiting lists are measured in years, not months
Yes — the consultation that asks nothing tells you what kind of service it is.
A private prescription is an independent route: it does not affect NHS list position, and it is not a step in the same pathway.
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.
specialist service, not GP, for tier 3 in most of England
Same. My ICB threshold was different from the neighbouring one and nobody could tell me why.
private prescription pricing moves monthly and the pharmacy is most of the spread
an online consultation that asks you nothing is not a consultation
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.
Careful, that pricing figure is a headline offer with conditions attached rather than the actual monthly cost.
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