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Repeat Prescription. Changes

Order mine through the nhs app, asda pharmacy says 3 to 4 days but if its something like antibiotics its quicker.
I usually order mine as I open the last 2 week pack of the monthly prescription. Not had a problem thus far.
 
Gulo Luseus said:
Mine are good as gold. Need a new scrip every month, go on the NHS app a week beforehand, place order, GP signs them off, and usually they are ready at my pharmacy of choive within 2-3 days- even get a text message telling me they are ready.
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Same ,text is a good idea 🙂
 
I use the NHS app to order all my different painkillers.

Just click down the list, it automatically issue perscription at doctors who authorises it, it then gets automatically sent by internet to pharmacy of choice, who then texts me when it's ready to pick up (y)
 
I use an online system from the GP surgery, I go online to my account, tick the medication that I need from my prescribed list and hit send, the surgery usually send a text confirmation of receipt and that it’s been passed to our local Boot’s the Boot’s send text that they’ve received it and that they’ll text when it’s ready to collect, all sounds simple, right, but no, it invariably takes 5 to 7 days to fill the prescription and not the 2 to 3 they quote.
 
Inca said:
My GP’s in-house pharmacy quotes 7 working days to fulfil an emailed repeat prescription request and it usually is 7 days and not fewer. Ten days sounds a lot.
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Ah, but remember, seven working days covers a weekend and those probably are not practice working days, so that seven working days becomes nine elapsed days. Then add in any bank holidays that come up and you are looking at ten to 11 elapsed days.

I have a similar problem with my surgery / dispensary. They will not issue more than 4 weeks supply. Previous surgery issued six months supply. Current surgery will not allow me to order a repeat within two weeks of the last one. They then state that I've to allow five working days to fill the prescription, so that is another week of a four week prescription gone. In my last week of meds I'm waiting on the text to tell me I can go to the satellite surgery in the village to collect my prescription. The satellite surgery is only open three half-days a week - if they have the staff to open up, or it's not a training day (once a month), or the weather isn't too bad for them to bother turning up, or some other excuse.

No wonder I'm stressed and grumpy :mad:

Some of the meds I'm on are supposed to keep me calm. I might be a lot calmer if I just stopped dealing with the GP and stopped taking my meds 🤪
 
Mother and OH had loads of problems with the pharmacy and repeat prescriptions.
pretty much all of the issues above plus the dispensing chemist would regularly hold one medication back for GP review.
Week to get an appointment, 4 days to dispense- would mean withdrawl symptoms and a fortnight without meds she's taken for 10 years.
 
Our chemists takes 10 days to do a repeat.
Yet all notices in the shop says please allow 3 working days for repeats ,always have customers moaning YET no one takes the 3 working days notices down.
 
Dodgyeye said:
I use the NHS app to order all my different painkillers.

Just click down the list, it automatically issue perscription at doctors who authorises it, it then gets automatically sent by internet to pharmacy of choice, who then texts me when it's ready to pick up (y)
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Same here. Works a dream
 
I have also had a couple of instances where I received text to say ready for collection but have gone, yes drugs ready but no one qualified to dispense
 
I too use the NHS app and the pharmacy in my GPs, it used to take 2-3 working days but as more people are using the service its closer to 7 working days now, mildly irritating but it's not unreasonable in my opinion. My only complaint is it wont allow me to order them too early, I think 14 days after the previous dispensing is the earliest.
 
Mark Palmer said:
I too use the NHS app and the pharmacy in my GPs, it used to take 2-3 working days but as more people are using the service its closer to 7 working days now, mildly irritating but it's not unreasonable in my opinion. My only complaint is it wont allow me to order them too early, I think 14 days after the previous dispensing is the earliest.
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One of the reasons of longer waiting times is the number of Pharmacies closing pushing patients to fewer outlets. You can do special request's on the app if afraid of running out of a drug
 
I have used my Dr's website for repeat prescriptions in the past. I have now used the NHS app for a year or so and prefer it, as its so easy. Also prevents stock piling stuff you dont really need because the pharmacy keep ordering everything, and possibly making a good living out of all the medication they provide on prescriptions...
 
Weblee88 said:
possibly making a good living out of all the medication they provide on prescriptions...
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Not in Wales they don't, as it's all free!

I don't understand why so many of you have to keep asking for repeat prescriptions. My local pharmacy asked me if I wanted to repeat the prescription the first time I went in. I said yes and that was 6 years ago. Every so often they just confirm it when I go to pick up my stuff, I say yes again and it's all sorted.
 
Medication can change, doses increased/decreased, alternative medications sometimes stopped
 
I have been using Ipill and cannot fault them Pills come in daily packs for morning and evening but I am sure that they can pack for 4 times a day. Meds always arrive at least a week before the previous order runs out. They phone your GP and order for you each month.
 
Another vote here for Pharmacy2U. Been using them for a few years and theyve been very good. They send you a reminder in plenty of time. They then get the authorisation from your GP and post the meds out to you - usually arriving within a week of the request. All very convenient.

Steve
 
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