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c/glp1uk·posted 2 years ago by u/marit_coelho

[PSA] MHRA is not what most of this community thinks it is

PSA Receipts ×2 Well Actually ×3 Sourced ×1

The one-line version is the title: MHRA is not what most of this community thinks it is. The rest is why.

Concentrations can differ between products and between pharmacies. Switching mid-titration means redoing the arithmetic rather than carrying the old unit count across.

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

Four pharmacies, four prices, same product, same month. The spread was larger than I expected and none of them were the headline offer.

Would rather be corrected in public than confident in private.

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u/lina_almeida1.5k points·2 years ago·edited

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/marit_coelhoOP996 points·2 years ago

discharge at goal back to the GP is where a lot of people fall over

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u/niels_norgaard823 points·2 years ago

Agreed on keeping letters. Dates are what make an appeal or a re-referral possible.

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u/sock_puppet_spotter204 points·2 years ago

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

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u/pavel_kravchenko461 points·2 years ago

the Irish scheme cap is the single most useful fact in this board

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u/declared_value_dv258 points·2 years ago

Agreed. The ICB variation is the thing that makes national advice useless here.

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u/milan_wikstrom67 points·2 years ago

Switched pharmacies mid-titration and had to restart the ladder because the concentrations did not line up.

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u/mikkel_correia-20 points·2 years ago

How long have you been on the list, and from what date?

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