Early preview build of MedBuds new stock system

An early preview build of our new stock system, planned to automatically update availability at individual pharmacies every 15 minutes (wherever possible). We right now expect to be able to display live information from at least 7-8 different pharmacies

From MedBud's X account for non-X users.

 

[GrownHealth]

One small issue I have come across since making an account on the main site, I’m being logged out constantly, despite ticking the box to keep logged in. Can be half hour sometimes and it will log me out. No issue with the forum side, as that is always a few weeks it seems.

We'll look into it and cheers for highlighting as there may be an underlying bug

 

[GrownHealth]

For the first time since launch, with our pharmacy stock tracking, patients are finally starting to recognise we are almost always reliably update ahead of official releases.

Anyone watching us over time recognises this already.

It genuinely takes multiple days for most clinics to action updates, and that often is dependent on commercial deals being made behind the scenes.

The point being made is that we're tired of being blamed for clinics/pharmacies saying "medications don't exist" when infact we're just the first to publish - and their own staff haven't bothered to update yet themselves. We receive most of the same stock updates they do.

MedBud is launching a full stock API for companies/clinicians across the industry, set to launch next week. We're hoping to make this available to bodies such as @UKMCCS
.Let's have no more excuses please, if a medication is approved/available, clinicians have no justification for not considering it for treatment - this is arguably covered in @GMCUK guidelines.

In all circumstances if a clinician is ignoring guidelines and trying to limit prescribing to a clinic's specific commercially-influenced formulary - they are breaking guidelines, that could cost them their medical license if ever under legal pressure.

The key to maintaining an open, accessible and unbiased industry, is strongly enforcing that clinicians must prescribe to all patients indiscriminately, irrespective of commercial influence – and in all instances.

 

[GrownHealth]

We're still working on launching the full formularies for our new pharmacy tracking, hopefully days away.Total count of medications available across 8 formularies:
IPS: 197
Montu: 195
Curaleaf: 171
Newgrove: 156
Specials Pharma: 155*
CB1 Medical: 123
Mamedica®: 119
Lyphe: 42

Asterisk next to Specials Pharma to note they currently have two full distributor ranges unavailable temporarily, ordinarily 200+.

 

[GrownHealth]

We're still working on launching the full formularies for our new pharmacy tracking, hopefully days away.Total count of medications available across 8 formularies:
IPS: 197
Montu: 195
Curaleaf: 171
Newgrove: 156
Specials Pharma: 155*
CB1 Medical: 123
Mamedica®: 119
Lyphe: 42

Asterisk next to Specials Pharma to note they currently have two full distributor ranges unavailable temporarily, ordinarily 200+.

Something we should have noted earlier, we currently record 263 medications as being available - so the closest any single pharmacy seems to be right now to full coverage is about 75%.

 

[GrownHealth]

 

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We're still working on launching the full formularies for our new pharmacy tracking, hopefully days away.Total count of medications available across 8 formularies:
IPS: 197
Montu: 195
Curaleaf: 171
Newgrove: 156
Specials Pharma: 155*
CB1 Medical: 123
Mamedica®: 119
Lyphe: 42

Asterisk next to Specials Pharma to note they currently have two full distributor ranges unavailable temporarily, ordinarily 200+.

Is Cura closing in? Why do they stock a huge range and not prescribe the decent ones? They must be wholesale too?

 

[GrownHealth]

Is Cura closing in? Why do they stock a huge range and not prescribe the decent ones? They must be wholesale too?

Probably Cura are the ones I personally know least about formulary wise but it does seem pretty large and two new Dalgety strains available on it too that cura labs package so.

 

[Muiredach]

Is Cura closing in? Why do they stock a huge range and not prescribe the decent ones? They must be wholesale too?

Effectively there's a complete different formulary between what Curaleaf Pharmacy can/will supply, and what Curaleaf Clinic will actually prescribe. There are patients whom use the pharmacy and not the clinic.

 

[joint_account]

Effectively there's a complete different formulary between what Curaleaf Pharmacy can/will supply, and what Curaleaf Clinic will actually prescribe. There are patients whom use the pharmacy and not the clinic.

So Curaleaf (clinic) doesn't prescribe the full formulary from Curaleaf (Pharmacy)?

That seems counter intuitive to deem product good enough for the market but not your own patients but what do I know.

 

[Dooby Doo]

I had my first migraine in 2018, I assumed it was a brain tumour. My left eye went completely blurred then psychedelic shapes appeared in the dark blur, bursting lights of triangles etc which felt like 20 meters away to my left is what I saw. I freaked and went to the doctor who told me to get an eye test as I work in IT and screen time. The optician herself had migraines and listened to my description, she told me it was an ocular migraine. She prescribed glasses with hardly any magnification just for computer screens, when you hold them to the light they have a green tinge from a green filter. I have never had a migraine since from a computer except when I have forgotten my glasses. Over the years I now also get them from strobing lights like when driving through a load of trees with sunlight behind them causing them to flash.

For me at the start of the internet pre my migraines whenever I looked at green text on a black background or white text on a black background the images fuses onto my eyes for a few minutes, I have to close my eyes to let the image clear, apparently this is quite common. I guess this was the warning sign for me.

When I saw @GrownHealth screen prints above I assumed these listing page would only be black for some reason, I did not know about the switch as my MedBud has always been white with black text.

Anyway migraines suck big time, so take @Lank72 advice and get some suitable glasses!

Edit: migraines are not part of why i am a MC user, not mentioned in consultations.

That what happened in 2018 was probably a flashback from them microdots years ago sorry mate had to slip that one in about the psychedelics.