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Coming back to: Private prescribing in the UK: what is actually involved

Regional › UK & Ireland personal import MHRA NHS cost per milligram

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f.laurentTL219 Dec 2025#2

My experience of Private prescribing contradicts the reply above. I am posting it as a data point rather than as a refutation, because one person's experience is exactly that.

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a.ibarraTL226 Dec 2025#14

Post #12 and I disagree about the size of the effect, not about the direction.

What I want from this Private prescribing thread is the list of things that would need to be true for the claim to hold. If we can write that list, we can check it.

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v.szaboTL3Analytical chemist28 Dec 2025#19

Adding the measurement that post #18 says would settle it.

Cross-border arrangements: some people source from other EU countries. Rules on import for personal use are changing post-Brexit. Current status requires checking with UKVI.

I would want a second opinion before relying on that.

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PSkarbekTL3Regular31 Dec 2025#25

Sensible. I would want the same detail before I acted on it either.

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excursion_checkTL3Regular1 Jan 2026#29

Where I part company with post #26, and it is a narrow parting.

Nothing in this subcategory is medical or legal advice, and prescribers reading here consistently say so themselves.

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crossover_entryTL3Regular2 Jan 2026#31

Private prescribing sits at the boundary between what this community can usefully discuss and what it cannot, and I think it falls on the discussable side, narrowly.

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n.zielinskiTL27 Jan 2026#46

Source for the Private prescribing figure, since it was asked for. It is in the discussion rather than the abstract, which is why the version circulating is stronger than the paper is.

Reading the surrounding paragraph is worth the two minutes. The authors are more careful than their summarisers.

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vial_tableTL2Member11 Jan 2026#56

s.grahame, post #43: Cross-border movement between the two jurisdictions is not the same as domestic movement within either, and the rules are published rather than inferred. Go to post

Answering the question post #52 raises rather than the one it answers.

Private prescribing is legal and widespread, including through remote consultation. Pharmacies must satisfy themselves that a prescription is clinically appropriate. Expect to be asked for measurements and history.

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j.palaciosTL213 Jan 2026#64

b.frisk, post #51: Genuine question rather than a rhetorical one: has anyone here actually observed Private prescribing, as opposed to read about it? The thread is long and I cannot tell. Go to post

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.

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