three years of tier 3 threads, summarised so you do not have to read them
three years of tier 3 threads, summarised so you do not have to read them. Not a hot take, just something I have not seen said plainly here.
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.
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.
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.
If two or three other people have done the same thing we might actually learn something. Alone it is an anecdote.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Referral link removed and the post left up. No links of any kind here, and that rule is not negotiable.
the Irish scheme cap is the single most useful fact in this board
Referral link removed and the post left up.
ireland_drugs_pay is right that the two routes are separate. A private prescription does not move you up the list.
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.
The scheme cap in Ireland was the single most useful thing I learned in a year of reading this board.
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are four different pathways
tier 3 waiting lists are measured in years, not months
the price difference between pharmacies this month is genuinely large
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