NHS Prescription Refund

nottslass_2

The pharmacy should still give you your medication (without charging)even if you don't have your proof of exemption with you - there is a box for the pharmacy to cross/tick if they haven't seen proof of your exemption.

supermonkey

Thanks for all your replies. So do you think I should complain to the Pharmacy?

Indie_Kid

welshdent wrote: »

Buying cheaper over the counter is a different kettle of fish ... but I am guessing from the discussion that it wasnt an over the counter drug? Most pharmacists I know would have suggested the over the counter if it were cheaper in these circumstances

What I'm on now and was on over the summer, aren't otc.

welshdent

If it is an antihistamine the something is probably available OTC. My girlfriend has loads of allergies and usually just picks something up in boots or tesco. In wales we get free presciptions anyway. You said yourself you would get your mum to get some piriton so you are probably happy with the job it would do

supermonkey

any more advice? Perhaps £7.20 isn't much to some of you, but never the less it is £7.20 I could do without spending and shouldn;t have

Indie_Kid

nottslass wrote: »

The pharmacy should still give you your medication (without charging)even if you don't have your proof of exemption with you - there is a box for the pharmacy to cross/tick if they haven't seen proof of your exemption.

Yeah. When I went in in January, I didn't have my certificate on me and did say that I didn't have it. I was given my medication with no problem.

I did have to show it today because someone new was there.