Prescriptions
REQUESTING REPEAT PRESCRIPTIONSWhen requesting a repeat prescription, please use the repeat prescription form provided with your last prescription. Please clearly indicate those items that you need. Either hand in the form to reception or post the form to us. Alternatively, you could fax the request to us. For reasons of safety and confidentiality, we will not accept telephone requests for repeat prescriptions.
We now have an on-line repeat prescription system available.
COLLECTING REPEAT PRESCRIPTIONS
We deal with many hundreds of repeat prescription requests each week and each prescription needs to be carefully checked and printed before it can be signed. Please allow at least two full working days for your prescription to be ready. We are happy for you to request your prescription a week or two in advance if needed. If you are posting the request to us, please allow extra time for the post to be delivered. If you wish, you can include a stamped self-addressed envelope and we will post your prescription to you.
We have set up a prescription collection service with Mr. Patel, the pharmacist working next door to the surgery. Please let reception know when you send in your prescription if you would like us to arrange for it to go to the chemist for dispensing and collection there. Please be aware that three working days are required for the prescription to be issued, sent to the pharmacy and dispensed.
MEDICATION REVIEWS
Each repeat prescription item has a review date. This will be decided by your doctor when the prescription is first prescribed and will be reviewed by them on a regular basis. If you have passed your review date, no further prescriptions will be issued until you have reviewed the medication with your doctor or one of the nurses. It is important to review your medication to check whether the medication is still needed and whether it is working as it should. We will also check that you are not having side effects, arrange any tests that need to be done to monitor the effects and check that nothing better could be used. Your medication should be reviewed at least once a year and more frequently for some medication.