Records problem. The summary they hold about me is wrong by three items.
Get the criteria document. Every refusal is scored against a checklist and the letter never includes it.
Everything the practice holds is optimised for the practice, not for you. Download it twice a year.
Appeals succeed far more often than first requests, because the first review is often automated.
What worked for you, concretely?
Print the page.
You have two changes at once here. You cannot attribute anything until one of them moves.
Same shape here, different drug. The thing that helped was documenting the refusal rather than re-arguing it. They refer rather than write. How long have you been on a shared care record?
Following this because I am in the same place and have no idea what to ask at the appointment.
My pharmacist has become my actual doctor and I am at peace with it.
Print the page.