Repeat prescription

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I have habit of forgetting too order tablets to last minute and as some are for 28days, 30days, 56days, 100 days and 112 days can be a pain in the backside.
Some pharmacies do a service that they will organise reordering your repeat prescription for you and when I was in today picking mine up they had a leaflet to say they also offer a service to acually put them into pill sorter for you as well. I know my mum used to gett his done years ago but never realised it was a service widely overed. I thought hers was just because she was an OAP.
Wtihout my painkiller which I take only when needed I take 10 tablets a day so this will help me as I HATE sorting them and if someone else will do it for me will help. Due to pains in my hands I have trouble getting pills out of the blister packets and they end up on floor.
Some pharmacies do a service that they will organise reordering your repeat prescription for you and when I was in today picking mine up they had a leaflet to say they also offer a service to acually put them into pill sorter for you as well. I know my mum used to gett his done years ago but never realised it was a service widely overed. I thought hers was just because she was an OAP.
Wtihout my painkiller which I take only when needed I take 10 tablets a day so this will help me as I HATE sorting them and if someone else will do it for me will help. Due to pains in my hands I have trouble getting pills out of the blister packets and they end up on floor.
TOTAL 44 weeks lose. 6st 9.5lb :T
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One thing I have noticed as well, - we collect our prescriptions from the surgery and then take them to the pharmacy, as the pharmacy we use (with lovely friendly pharmacists) doesn't have an arrangement with our surgery IYSWIM.
Anyway, several times, the Doctor has omitted to sign the form, so I have to remember to check before leaving the surgery, and twice lately, they have omitted one of the meds I ordered completely, and I had to wait while that was sorted out.:eek: :eek:
Anyone else had this rigmarole to go through?
I've certainly had the one of having to check up on the Dr's (and taking multiple pills!). With regards to prescriptions that are NOT medicines such as dressings, catheters and assorted healthcare equipment etc I recently discovered an excellent service from Charter Healthcare which is a sort of online/telephone chemist. They sort out the prescription at the GP's end so all you have to do is contact them and place an order, the supplies are then delivered to your home by a very reliable courier service within a couple of days...I'm not sure quite how I coped before but would highly recommend them as a labour/hassle with GP saving service for those who need regular scripts for supplies. It's a shame that they don't do tablets or other medicines but very handy for those of us who need to regularly cart bulky boxes home from the chemist! I just gave them a call and they did the rest...
All the best,
mcspanna
If your prescriptions come at different times, I would drop a polite note into the doctor explaining the problem and asking them to make your repeats for the same length of time where possible (unless you pay for prescriptions and you end up paying more).
I find getting to the docs to drop off the request the limiting factor, Whilst you can't normally order repeat over the phone, I have found if you request a telephone consultation my GP will do it, alternatively my GP now has internet ordering, brilliant. then you can get the chemist to pick them up and drop them off.
Another thought would be to use the tart alert to remind you when to order your next batch!
our doctor will take orders over the phone and I only realised lately that not all doctors do this. I have a friend who has to go to her doctors to order a repeat, she has Fibromyalgia as well and finds it hard at times to get out.
that looks a great idea
thanks
just been shoing a friend the link and she used to work in home nursing and said some of her patients used these, they look great.
So I put them all on a spreadsheet (though you could just as easily do this with a pen & paper) and every third weekend I sit down and see if we have enough of each item to last another four weeks. If not, I order another repeat (online, which makes it even easier). No chance of running out of anything, and I only have to check every three weeks.