[Question] Australia — has anyone got a straight answer on tier 3
Australia — has anyone got a straight answer on tier 3. I would rather ask a basic question now than get this wrong quietly for two months. 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. Four pharmacies, four prices, same…
Discharge at goal, which nobody warns people about.
Specialist services in England are commissioned to deliver a defined intervention. Reaching goal is a successful outcome and it typically ends with discharge back to primary care. Whether prescribing continues after that is a local decision that varies, and plenty of members here have discovered it at the point of discharge rather than at the start.
The useful thing to do is ask early: what happens when I finish, and does prescribing continue in primary care in this area. Ask it in writing, keep the answer, and you will at least know which conversation you are heading for.
Disagree. That is the pathway in one ICB and it does not generalise even to the next one over.
specialist service, not GP, for tier 3 in most of England
no referral links, ever, and that rule is why the pricing threads work
private and NHS pathways are not a ladder, they are separate routes
Small fix — that is the Scottish pathway. The post is asking about England and the answer is different.
the ICB decides the threshold and they are not the same across England