Practical answer on irish differences, since the theoretical one is upthread: do the simplest check first, write down the result, and only then decide whether the complicated explanation is needed. It usually is not.
Posting this under the heading it deserves: Irish differences from the UK position Everything below is what sits behind that.
Trying to establish the boundary conditions on irish differences. The general claim is fine; I want to know where it stops holding, because that is where I am operating.
Three edge cases below, in increasing order of how far outside the usual range they sit.
Practical answer on irish differences, since the theoretical one is upthread: do the simplest check first, write down the result, and only then decide whether the complicated explanation is needed. It usually is not.
Coming back to post #2, because the follow-up matters more than the original answer.
Private prescribing arrangements differ in what they include, and the differences are more consequential than the headline price.
I have left out the parts I could not verify.
Post #4 is right about the mechanism and I think understates the practical bit.
The failure mode on irish differences is boring rather than dramatic. It is almost always the step everyone assumes was done correctly because it is too simple to get wrong.
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.
Posting it because the silence on this was starting to look like agreement.
Adding a reference point for irish differences. Mine is a single case, collected without controls, and I am posting the method alongside it so it can be discounted appropriately.
Post #8 answers the question as asked. The question underneath it is different.
The most useful contribution is a link to the current official page with the date you accessed it. That survives; a paraphrase does not.
Not the answer, but possibly the question that gets there.
Cross-border movement between the two jurisdictions is not the same as domestic movement within either, and the rules are published rather than inferred.
I would want a second opinion before relying on that.
Nothing in this subcategory is medical or legal advice, and prescribers reading here consistently say so themselves.
Someone will know this better than I do and I hope they say so.
Post #13 answers the question as asked. The question underneath it is different.
What I want from this irish differences 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.
I read post #13 twice before replying, because I had assumed the opposite.
Irish differences: I have looked for the primary source twice and failed twice. Either it does not exist or it is somewhere I do not know to look, and I would like to know which.
Members outside these two jurisdictions reading this thread should note that none of it transfers, including the parts that sound general.
Anyone with a larger sample, please post it.
Where guidance distinguishes between indications, quoting the indication is essential. The same compound has different positions under different indications.
I have seen it go both ways, which is why I hedge.
Correcting an out-of-date claim in this subcategory with a source and a date is more valuable than a new topic on the same question.
Picking up post #18: that is the part I would want checked first.
A request rather than an answer: could whoever has the primary source for irish differences post it? I have seen the claim three times this month and each version had lost a qualifier.
Waiting times are the most variable and least generalisable thing reported here, and they are worth posting anyway with a region and a date.
Bookmarking this. I will come back when I have something worth adding.
This follows post #22 rather than contradicting it.
Irish differences is one of those subjects where the general answer and the answer for a specific case diverge, and the thread will go in circles until someone says which one is being asked for.
Understood. Thank you for being specific about the limits of it.
Anyone quoting an eligibility threshold should say which document it comes from. The thresholds have changed and the old ones are still circulating.
Where a member reports a decision, the useful detail is the stated reason rather than the outcome, because the reason is what generalises.
Reporting the observation and leaving the explanation open deliberately.
Adding the boring version of irish differences, because the interesting version keeps getting posted and the boring one is usually right.
Check the ordinary explanations, in order, and stop when one of them accounts for what you are seeing. Most of the time the second one does.