Home & Garden1 min ago
Online Prescription Service Help
4 Answers
Hello I signed up online with a chemist to get my repeat prescriptions send through the post to me but I am having nothing but problems with my doctor's surgery.
I am 80 years old and when I need a repeat prescription I have to go to my doctor's surgery and order a repeat prescription which is quite a walk from my house, then wait 2 days and go to the chemist's in town to pick it up and sometimes it is not ready so I have to walk to town again to collect it, so I thought getting it through a online would be easier for me as I have had a slight stroke and find it hard to walk far.
The chemist told me all they had to do after I sent them one of my repeat prescriptions they would contact my doctor's surgery and they would fax a prescription back to them and then they would sent me my pills, but my doctor's surgery is refusing to send them my prescription.
Can they do this?
I am 80 years old and when I need a repeat prescription I have to go to my doctor's surgery and order a repeat prescription which is quite a walk from my house, then wait 2 days and go to the chemist's in town to pick it up and sometimes it is not ready so I have to walk to town again to collect it, so I thought getting it through a online would be easier for me as I have had a slight stroke and find it hard to walk far.
The chemist told me all they had to do after I sent them one of my repeat prescriptions they would contact my doctor's surgery and they would fax a prescription back to them and then they would sent me my pills, but my doctor's surgery is refusing to send them my prescription.
Can they do this?
Answers
Best Answer
No best answer has yet been selected by JG1965. Once a best answer has been selected, it will be shown here.
For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I agree...a total shambles.......I know from past posts that other Health Systems are inferior to the U.K NHS, but if it helps, can I please tell you what happens in Spain.
One is issued with a type of credit card which holds all your medication and is updated on an annual basis. You than go to any chemist in Spain, your card is swiped in a machine and your tablets dispensed for one month.
Works well.
One is issued with a type of credit card which holds all your medication and is updated on an annual basis. You than go to any chemist in Spain, your card is swiped in a machine and your tablets dispensed for one month.
Works well.
My mother had this system when she lived in the country. She had to go to the doctor`s, get the prescription then it was faxed to a town 10 miles away and took 48 hours etc. It doesn`t have to be like that. Now she lives near me and she collects 6 months' prescriptions, files them all in one go (the real ones, not faxes or anthing) with the local Boots and collects the tablets once a month when she needs them. They`ll even deliver if she would like.
My other half has a plastic card which he takes to the pharmacy once a month where his prescription medication is ready and waiting for him, no contact with the surgery at all and no faffing around with prescriptions. Once a year he has a medication review with his gp.
I put in a prescription request with the surgery and get three months worth of medication on one paper prescription 48 hours later. I take this to the pharmacy and am given three months mediation.
JG, there are various ways of making this a lot easier for yourself. Go and see the surgery and explain your difficulties, I'm sure they will sort it out for you.
I put in a prescription request with the surgery and get three months worth of medication on one paper prescription 48 hours later. I take this to the pharmacy and am given three months mediation.
JG, there are various ways of making this a lot easier for yourself. Go and see the surgery and explain your difficulties, I'm sure they will sort it out for you.
Related Questions
Sorry, we can't find any related questions. Try using the search bar at the top of the page to search for some keywords, or choose a topic and submit your own question.