[Question] how do you actually verify NHS
how do you actually verify NHS, and I want the answer with the reasoning attached rather than just the conclusion.
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.
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.
A private prescription is an independent route: it does not affect NHS list position, and it is not a step in the same pathway.
Tell me where this is wrong. That is the useful part of posting it.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Why the monthly pricing tracker works, and the rule that makes it work.
Members post the pharmacy, the product, the month and the price they actually paid — not an advertised offer, not a first-month discount. No links of any kind are permitted, which removes the entire incentive to post anything other than what happened.
The result is that the spread between pharmacies in a given month is visible, and it is consistently larger than people expect. That single table has saved members here more money than every other thread on the board combined, and it survives only because the no-links rule is enforced without exception.
Disagree. That is the pathway in one ICB and it does not generalise even to the next one over.
Disagree.
Agreed — and keeping the letters with dates is what makes any later challenge possible.
Agreed — and keeping the letters with dates is what makes any later challenge possible.
ahmed_okafor is right that the two routes are separate. A private prescription does not move you up the list.
This. The monthly pricing tracker is the most useful thing on this board and it works because nobody is allowed to link anything.
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That is the first-month offer price, not the ongoing monthly cost. The tracker records the second one.
Why the monthly pricing tracker works, and the rule that makes it work.
Disagreeing with this line: that is the arrangement in one nation and the question is about another.
the Irish scheme cap is the single most useful fact in this board
tier 3 waiting lists are measured in years, not months
Which nation, and which ICB if you are in England?
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