[Discussion] can we stop arguing about NHS until somebody posts a number
Question in the title, detail here: can we stop arguing about NHS until somebody posts a number.
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.
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.
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.
Happy to answer the boring questions. Those are usually the ones worth asking.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Pharmacy pricing on a private prescription is set by the pharmacy. The spread between them in a given month is routinely substantial, which is why a tracker built from member reports is more useful than any headline.
BMI thresholds vary by ICB and by year
Pharmacy staff name removed. The pharmacy itself can be named in a pricing post.
Pharmacy staff name removed.
Agreed — and keeping the letters with dates is what makes any later challenge possible.
the Irish scheme cap is the single most useful fact in this board
an online consultation that asks you nothing is not a consultation
the MHRA supply notices are published, read them before the panic threads
A private prescription is an independent route: it does not affect NHS list position, and it is not a step in the same pathway.
A private prescription is an independent route: it does not affect NHS list position, and it is not a step in the same pathway.
Disagreeing with this line: that is the arrangement in one nation and the question is about another.
tier 3 waiting lists are measured in years, not months
discharge at goal back to the GP is where a lot of people fall over
GP said no and specialist said yes is a very common sequence
Agreed on keeping letters. Dates are what make an appeal or a re-referral possible.
NHS pathway or private prescription?
the ICB decides the threshold and they are not the same across England
private prescription pricing moves monthly and the pharmacy is most of the spread
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