Forum Posting Guidelines - 28

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Forum Posting Guidelines - 28

The Thyroid UK forum guidelines are always accessible on this pinned post:

Forum Posting Guidelines

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We ask that all members read them and very much hope you do so. However, in time, we can forget what was there, or misremember, or whatever.

Hence, I am posting this short reminder of the guidelines in full.

And (today) of this specific item:

28. Do not post advertisements, links or information of any sort whatsoever, on where or how to obtain UK prescription only medications without prescription. This includes online pharmacies who issue 'prescriptions' on the basis of the completion of a simple health questionnaire.

Advertising of all medicines in the UK is very tightly controlled. Therefore any post or reply which is or could appear to be advertising any medicine is not allowed.

UK national guidance on medicine advertising is complex and tightly controlled. Details are available here:

Blue Guide: advertising and promoting medicines

gov.uk/government/publicati...

This guideline includes medicines which would be prescription-only if they were available in the UK. (Obviously most non-UK medicines are not formally prescription-only, even if similar UK medicines are, because they haven’t even been notified to the MHRA.) This expressly includes all products with any declared thyroid hormone content.

UK pharmacies which use proper prescribing protocols (e.g. have a qualified prescriber who follows UK rules) may be mentioned.

Do not try to circumvent this guideline by crossword-cluing potential suppliers. As in making allusions to the site, ‘sounds like’, or supplying one or more letters of the name, etc.

If you are in any doubt, do not post information but send it via Private Message (also called Chat).

Note that HealthUnlocked’s own guidelines also apply:

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