T3 article by Billy Kenber in The Times today

[Airmed]

First part second to follow as can only add 1 photo

2nd part in healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...

[humanbean]

Airmed It would be a good idea to include a link to Part 2 just under the photo.

[Airmed in reply to humanbean]

I don’t know how to do that. Please advise😀

[humanbean in reply to Airmed]

Click on the v in a little box just under your post. Several options come up - click on Edit.

In the text part of your post, copy in the link to your second post, then Save your changes (or Submit or Post - I can never remember the word used!)

But I wouldn't worry about it if you aren't sure what to do. Rapunzel has posted the link.

[marigold22 in reply to humanbean]

Sorry to butt in here but would like to know how to link in a member's name as you have here humanbean

[ITYFIALMCTT in reply to marigold22]

This tells you how, marigold22 : support.healthunlocked.com/...

[marigold22 in reply to ITYFIALMCTT]

Thanks , did search Help but couldn't find it.

[Rapunzel]

Link to 2nd part

healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...

Travelling to Greece for your liothyronine Mr Hudgell? Good luck geezer

[diogenes Remembering]

Looking at the numbers written in the article I was puzzled. 1) at £9.22 a tablet for T3, 13000 patients are being treated. That's 13000 x 365 x 9.22 or £43 million about per annum. So if we'll assume the £30.7 million quoted as right for T3 use pa, from these figures either there are only about 10000 patients at £9.22 or 13000 at an average of £7.69 per tablet. 2) But the business gets even weirder. In 2011, when tablets presumably cost 16 p, £3.7 million was spent. On the same basis this works out at 65000 patients about. So these figures indicate the scale of patient cutback on T3 use since 2011 - 65000 to 10-13000. I hope my maths is wrong, but I can't find any other explanation.