how much of what we believe about tier 3 actually comes from NHS threads
Genuine question, and the title is the question: how much of what we believe about tier 3 actually comes from NHS threads. 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. A private prescription is an…
tier 3 waiting lists are measured in years, not months
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.
This. The monthly pricing tracker is the most useful thing on this board and it works because nobody is allowed to link anything.
Agreed on keeping letters. Dates are what make an appeal or a re-referral possible.
the price difference between pharmacies this month is genuinely large
Switched pharmacies mid-titration and had to restart the ladder because the concentrations did not line up.
GP said no in the spring, specialist said yes eighteen months later. Same person, same numbers.
Concentrations can differ between products and between pharmacies. Switching mid-titration means redoing the arithmetic rather than carrying the old unit count across.
the MHRA supply notices are published, read them before the panic threads
the MHRA supply notices are published, read them before the panic threads
Agreed — and keeping the letters with dates is what makes any later challenge possible.