Telehealth that worked, and one that did not

Started 29 April 2025 · 18 replies · 180 hearts · read 3.5k times

OttiHarrogate, UK · 29 April 2025

about a year ago

A question rather than an update: Telehealth that worked, and one that did not

Anyone else here in my part of the world? I would like to compare notes.

I have read the guides and they are good, and they are necessarily general, and my question is entirely about local specifics.

The forms and the sequence are what I am stuck on rather than anything clinical, and the sequence appears to be local knowledge.

I would like to know how long things actually took for people in my system, because the published times bear no relation to my experience so far.

Any local detail gratefully received, however small. The small things are what nobody writes down.

TamarPlymouth, UK

What I got wrong was assuming a shortage was permanent. It resolved in about five months and I nearly stopped in month two.

HollisBath, UK

Building on what Tamar wrote rather than answering the original question.

I would say get on good terms with one pharmacy. Mine has looked after me through two supply problems and one house move.

BevanSwansea, UK

The bloods are done at a collection centre and sent on, which is efficient and took one conversation to set up.

PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia

Noticing that this thread has been unusually good at saying what the poster does not know, which is the hardest thing to write.

CallaWellington, NZ

Something practical: I keep everything in the coolest room of the house and I check it with a thermometer in January.

CatoAntwerp, BE

What surprised me was how much of this my pharmacist handled without me needing another appointment.

DotFalmouth, UK

Cato — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

My experience is that things that worked here were arranged locally and that national advice was often not applicable to my situation.

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AriaAuckland, NZ

The travel between islands and the timing of collections is a real planning problem and I have built a fortnight of slack into everything.

OrrinGlasgow, UK

Building on what Cato wrote rather than answering the original question.

The listing criteria here are specific and published, and reading them properly answered questions I had been asking people for months.

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OttaviaBologna, IT

#10

Coming back at two years to say it has been steady, that the supply problem passed, and that telehealth was the thing that made it workable.

BramwellRipon, UK

#11

Holding this with you rather than answering it.

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OzzyAdelaide, AU

#12

I would say ask about the authority process specifically, because it was straightforward once somebody explained the sequence.

BodhiByron Bay, AU

#13

What Ozzy described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

My GP was the whole of my care and it has been entirely adequate, which is not what I had expected from the accounts online.

TavitaApia, WS

#14

Something practical: the southern summer is my difficult season for storage and I plan around it rather than improvising.

BronwenBarry, UK

#15

My honest report is that the care has been good, the supply has been the difficulty, and both are better than they were.

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MarenBremen, DE

#16

What Bodhi described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

I found the rural arrangements here more developed than I expected, mostly because the distances force them to be.

PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia

#17

Speaking plainly: this circle cannot tell you what your entitlement is. It can tell you who to ask and what words to use.

NoraDublin, IE

#18

Something I got right was asking my pharmacy to hold stock for me when supply was uncertain, which they were happy to do.