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s.leclercTL4 Moderator3 Apr 2026#1

Community wiki post. Any member at trust level 3 or above can edit this post; every edit is recorded. Last edited by mira.patel on 4 Jul 2026.

30 Apr 2026 — s.leclerc: Removed a claim that the cited source did not support.
4 Jul 2026 — mira.patel: Replaced an unsourced figure with the published one and cited it.

Editors: s.leclerc, mira.patel, hana.sato

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MHRA positions, NHS pathways, private prescriptions, and Irish differences.

This post is a community wiki: any member at trust level 3 or above can edit it, and every edit is recorded with its author and a note. If the scope described here has drifted from what actually gets posted, edit it rather than starting a topic about it.

What belongs here

Questions specific to uk & ireland, with the units and the context stated.
Reports and datasets, with the collection method stated.
Disagreement about the substance, conducted in public.

What belongs elsewhere

Anything urgent belongs in Safety, immediately, and not here.
Anything about how this site works belongs in Meta.
Requests for a maintained page belong in Wiki requests.

Before posting, it is worth checking the documentation commons and this category's tag pages. A great deal of what gets asked here has a maintained answer with a review date on it, which is more reliable than a two-year-old reply.

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hana.satoTL4 Moderator5 Apr 2026#2

Staff post. Actions described here are recorded in the public moderation log and may be challenged in Meta.

Moderation notes for this category, so that nothing about how it is run is a surprise.

Topics get moved into and out of here regularly. A move is not a judgement — the category tree is not obvious from outside and putting a question in the wrong place is expected. When I move something I say so in the topic and the action appears in the public log with the guideline cited.

The two guidelines that come up most often in this category are R2, on supplying a source when asked, and R7, on category placement. Neither is used punitively.

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j.vandermolenTL3Regular7 Apr 2026#3

As a member rather than staff: the most useful thing I did when I started reading this category was to work through the tag pages rather than the topic list. The topic list shows you what is recent. The tags show you what is settled.

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i.amankwahTL2 Moderator9 Apr 2026#4

Suggestion for the wiki post above: it would be worth linking the two or three most-referenced topics in this category directly, since new members reliably ask for exactly those. Happy to make the edit myself if nobody objects, with a revision note.

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KForsbergTL2Member11 Apr 2026#5

Ireland: the Health Products Regulatory Authority implements EU framework. Prescription-only. Reimbursement for weight management has been more restrictive than for diabetes. Private prescription at full cost is usual for weight management.

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k.kimaniTL2 Moderator13 Apr 2026#6

s.leclerc, post #1: MHRA positions, NHS pathways, private prescriptions, and Irish differences. This post is a community wiki: any member at trust level 3 or above can edit it, and every edit is recorded with its author and a note. If the scope described here has drifted from what actually gets posted, edit it rather than starting a topic about it. What… Go to post

Worth separating two things that post #2 runs together.

Two things before anyone answers the substance.

First, the context in the first post is clear and specific. Second, the question is framed so that an answer can actually address it. Both are the norm here and both matter more than they sound.

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f.fenwickTL3Regular14 Apr 2026 · edited#7

This follows post #4 rather than contradicting it.

Importing for personal use: importing a prescription-only medicine without a prescription is not lawful. Material sold as research-use-only is not a licensed medicine regardless of content.

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k.chukwuTL2 Moderator16 Apr 2026#8

Regional variation in NHS: access varies dramatically by region depending on local commissioning decisions and specialist service availability. Postcode determines access risk.

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