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c/glp1uk·posted 1 year ago by u/diego_almeida

genuine question about private prescription that I am slightly embarrassed to ask

Discussion The Quiet One ×2 Well Actually ×1 Clean Column ×3

Something I noticed reading old threads that I have not seen said out loud.

The advice on pricing in this community changed substantially around the start of last year, and nobody went back and updated the older posts. So depending on which thread the search engine hands you, you get two contradictory answers with the same confidence.

I have listed what I think the current consensus is below. Correct me — that is the point of posting it.

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u/lane_watcherMOD623 points·1 year ago

Retitled to remove editorialising. Put the evidence in the body.

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u/units_not_mgsyringe math464 points·1 year ago

Retitled to remove editorialising.

Adding to this: pharmacy is doing more work than the comment implies.

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u/diego_almeidaOP317 points·1 year ago

Boots stock check: called 6 locations in the Netherlands, 35 had 2.4mg in stock. Regional variation is real.

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u/enzo_fonseca70 points·1 year ago

Not to be pedantic but NHS and pharmacy are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.

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u/omar_eriksen32 points·1 year ago

no naming online pharmacies that prescribe without a consultation

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u/anya_rautio8 points·1 year ago

the tier 3 pathway is the only free route, it is slow

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u/lina_almeida301 points·1 year ago·edited
nope. mine was the opposite.
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u/pavel_kravchenko106 points·1 year ago

This is correct. Private and NHS pathways are different.

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u/diego_almeidaOP-13 points·1 year ago

pharmacy stock is tier 3, check before traveling

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u/hassan_castellanos218 points·1 year ago

Yeah, the NHS waitlist is genuinely two years in most places.

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u/lane_watchermod · logistics59 points·1 year ago

Which Boots location?

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u/not_my_main_nm58 points·1 year ago

Respectfully this is a sample of one presented as a finding.

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u/sten_palacios48 points·1 year ago

the tier 3 pathway is the only free route, it is slow

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u/nadia_trevino26 points·1 year ago

England or Scotland? Different pathways.

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u/controversial_only143 points·1 year ago

Disagree. What you are describing is consistent with MHRA, not with what you concluded.

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u/ms_fragmenter43 points·1 year ago·edited

MHRA supply notices change monthly, follow the actual list

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u/zaid_balogun14 points·1 year ago

NHS tier 3 is NHS, the waiting list is real

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u/coring_the_stopper105 points·1 year ago

the two-year waiting list is accurate for most of England

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u/mei_cardoso77 points·1 year ago

NHS or private?

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u/hassan_chowdhury73 points·1 year ago

the Scottish pathway is different from the English one

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u/ahmed_okafor22 points·1 year ago·edited

private 12.5mg is MHRA in Denmark this month

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u/meta_analysis_mo7 points·1 year ago

Boots stock is hit-and-miss by location

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u/jarno_karlsen57 points·1 year ago

Which Boots location?

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