At second home - just wondering how to get prescription?

Andrea_jardin

Just to muddy the waters, apparently Boots do deliver from pharmacies for a £5 charge. I wonder if this means getting a taxi to take them in the nearby area, or whether they post them as well. There is a BBC article which I can't link to but which is called 

Boots £5 prescription delivery charge 'a disgrace

Andrea_jardin

Tea_Pea_Dee said:

With GP Online Services:Collection: 6 days after order is placed Delivery: 10 days after order is placed

Without* GP Online Services: Collection: 7 days after order is placed Delivery: 13 days after order is placed

Thank you, is GP Online services when the surgery has the facility to let patients log in online? 

Andrea_jardin

Manxman_in_exile said:

Why don't you simply telephone your GP surgery and ask them?   Ask if you can order online and can they send it to the nearest pharmacy.  Nobody here will know what your surgery will and won't do.

Some of the admin staff there are not great at the best of times, so I wouldn't expect to get the right answer in one phone call. Also I am nervous about them knowing I have a temporary address and deregistering me.

Andrea_jardin

JimmyTheWig said:

Have you got a friend / family member who can pick it up from your normal Boots and post it to you?

Thanks for the suggestion but I can't think of anyone in a position to do that.

KxMx

Andrea_jardin said:

Tea_Pea_Dee said:

With GP Online Services:Collection: 6 days after order is placed Delivery: 10 days after order is placed

Without* GP Online Services: Collection: 7 days after order is placed Delivery: 13 days after order is placed

Thank you, is GP Online services when the surgery has the facility to let patients log in online? 

Using either that still has to go through the Boots Online service.

So you would need to register with Boots online pharmacy and request the prescription through there.

https://www.boots.com/online/pharmacy/

I did consider them myself but my main repeat is a controlled drug which Boots will not post out, only send to my local branch for collection. Rather defeats the reason I went online.
Echo and Superdrug do post out controlled drugs. 

For the branch charge of £5 they have their own delivery service and driver(s) and they deliver the prescriptions by road. 

Branch pharmacy delivery paid or free is in massive demand now and places are asking to use it only if absolutely no one (friend/family/volunteer) can collect on your behalf. 

Mum's prescription is complex and she doesn't want to go online so I collect from the local Lloyds for her. They are massively promoting Echo in there. 

Gers

Andrea_jardin said:

Manxman_in_exile said:

Why don't you simply telephone your GP surgery and ask them?   Ask if you can order online and can they send it to the nearest pharmacy.  Nobody here will know what your surgery will and won't do.

Some of the admin staff there are not great at the best of times, so I wouldn't expect to get the right answer in one phone call. Also I am nervous about them knowing I have a temporary address and deregistering me.

I've been at a temporary address for longer than I anticipated - at the start I just sent a letter to my surgery with a request for the prescription and enclosing an SAE.  This wasn't ever a problem for the surgery and no-one attempted to de-register me, I did that myself when I realised that I may need a GP whilst away from home.  If the surgery nearest to where you are currently aren't taking new patients on then you can search online (NHS site) for one which is.

sheramber

I am also stuck away from home at the moment due to lockdown.
I phoned my GP surgery and confirmed they could fax my repeat prescription to a local pharmacy. I then  ordered  online through the   Patients Services  system  to my GP surgery   giving them the name and address  and the fax number of the pharmacy.  They need the pharmacy details  as they have to send them a paper prescription as well.
I collected my meds from the local pharmacy.

onwards&upwards

Andrea_jardin said:

Manxman_in_exile said:

Why don't you simply telephone your GP surgery and ask them?   Ask if you can order online and can they send it to the nearest pharmacy.  Nobody here will know what your surgery will and won't do.

Some of the admin staff there are not great at the best of times, so I wouldn't expect to get the right answer in one phone call. Also I am nervous about them knowing I have a temporary address and deregistering me.

Or reporting you to the police for staying at your holiday home against the regulations? 

Gers

onwards&upwards said:

Andrea_jardin said:

Manxman_in_exile said:

Why don't you simply telephone your GP surgery and ask them?   Ask if you can order online and can they send it to the nearest pharmacy.  Nobody here will know what your surgery will and won't do.

Some of the admin staff there are not great at the best of times, so I wouldn't expect to get the right answer in one phone call. Also I am nervous about them knowing I have a temporary address and deregistering me.

Or reporting you to the police for staying at your holiday home against the regulations? 

How do you come to that conclusion? 

Even if she were at a holiday home it may well be that she was there at the start of lockdown and is still there, keeping to the regulations. 

Of course, there are many other reasons for being away from home temporarily. 

peachyprice

Andrea_jardin said:

KxMx said:

I use the Echo app which is the Lloyds online service, after a bad experience with Superdrug Online Pharmacy. 

Thank you. Looks good. I am surprised that they don't charge though, I mean posting a parcel costs money so are they making money from data harvesting or something?

I am hoping to avoid the Doctors knowing about my temporary address, because if they tell me I need to register local to that address then I am stuffed because the local one is not taking on new patients at the mo..

Have you asked the local GP to register you as a temporary patient?
I had to do this for my daughter last week, her GP is now at Uni but she needed her hayfever meds whilst home, I rang my GP who registered her as temporary and issued her prescription, this wont effect her permanent registration at uni. 

https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/nhs-services-and-treatments/how-do-i-register-as-a-temporary-resident-with-a-gp/