Coming back to: Private prescribing in the UK: what is actually involved posts 61–68

Anyone quoting an eligibility threshold should say which document it comes from. The thresholds have changed and the old ones are still circulating.

I read the earlier replies on Private prescribing twice before writing this, because I had assumed the opposite and wanted to be sure I was disagreeing with what was said rather than what I expected.

This is the answer, and the reason it is the answer is the more useful part.

Building on post #61 rather than restating it.

A note on how Private prescribing gets discussed rather than on Private prescribing itself: the confident posts get the replies and the careful ones get ignored, and the careful ones have been right more often.

Everything in post #61 holds. The case it does not cover is the one I have.

Where a member reports a decision, the useful detail is the stated reason rather than the outcome, because the reason is what generalises.

I would not lead a decision with this, but I would not ignore it either.

Occupational health screening: some UK occupations require medical checks. Disclosure of weight-loss medication might be relevant to employment screening; understand your obligations.

Where the Private prescribing discussion usually stalls is that nobody wants to say "I do not know" and everyone is willing to say "it varies". Those are the same sentence with different clothes on.