Private Prescriptions - advice required.

ratty2601

Help! Have been prescribed £90 :eek: (yes £90) worth of items.
All of which have given me unspeakable side effects.
I still have 90% of the items UNUSED, UNOPENED am I eligible for refund.
£90 is a lot of money - do you agree?
Any Advice greatfully received.!:money:

fwor

I guess it seems unfair, but you cannot get a refund if the medication doesn't work for you. There is an assumption that the doctor prescribed "in good faith", so that's the end of it unless you want to take legal action against the doctor personally (please don't go there!). AFAIK the only case where you can get a refund is if you paid and then subsequently found that you were exempt from charges, and obviously that only applies to NHS prescriptions anyway.

Although it ~seems~ unfair, a system that did allow refunds if you didn't get 100% fixed by every prescription (or - say - 10% fixed for that matter) would be completely unworkable and open to abuse.

I believe that some pharmacies/doctors surgeries will take back unused and unopened medication for donation to Third World causes, but many don't (mine doesn't).

SiuLoong

Unfortunately from the point of view of a pharmacy once the medicines have left their shelves they have no controls on how they have been treated/stored. They will need to have temperature monitoring and recording etc.. From a consumers point of view you wouldn't want medications that had been sat on someones windowsill in bright sunlight then returned? Most people are sensible and treat their meds as they should but there are no guarantees once they have left the building. I work at a vets where we dispense meds and therefore work to similar guidelines. We occasionally refund meds (for example when an animal has passed away) but it is as a goodwill gesture as we have to dispose of them (and absorb the inital costs).