hi Wilko,

I totally agree with you, as I too had a good response both from my GP as well as NHS hospital consultant concerning using generic meds.
At the end I did not need to use my GP, as my consultant agreed without any difficulty to monitor my tx & do all the tests at the hospital.
He already ordered all the bloods for the whole of 12 weeks tx & just had all my base bloods done.
The only thing that is halting me to start tx is waiting for my DAC to arrive as there are huge delays, I already sourced Sofo from India, but been waiting now 3 weeks for DAC & it still did not arrived.

So talk with your GP or consultant, you never know until you do. Some will be OK with monitoring some will not.

Hello Everybody,

regarding the doctors monitoring the patients taking generic drugs, you can get a very good view by watching the last ~3 minutes from this webinar organized by WHA and to which Dr. Andrew Hill participated. Please follow the very last question (48min50sec) where someone sent the question whether a doctor can get in trouble if he/she is monitoring a patient taking generic drugs.

Cheers,
RHF

My GP surgery is in the city centre, a large practice which has a liver clinic once a week. I also have a Consultant in the hospital.
My GP did tests in March, and came back positive hep C
I was offered the usual interferon and Ribervan….told my Consultant, Liver Nurse and GP that I wanted to do generic treatment with fixhepc….
So my liver nurse has been doing blood tests, in GP surgery. This has come out of GP surgery budget.
But they are all keeping in the loop…the nurse is from the hospital and works with my Consultant. I have 3 days left on 12 weeks of sofosbuvir & daclatasvir …. all looking good on that thankfully…
My GP has been so supportive because at the end of the day the Consulant had said he wouldn’t monitor, he did say he would re visit the subject at the next ‘ meeting’…. and it’s a stress you could do without really isn’t it…. they know generics work… we know they work ….