GP refuses to deal with online pharmacies

lincroft1710

JJ_Egan said:

No need to see GP order prescription via web oked by GP then sent electronically to your registered local chemist .

https://support.patientaccess.com/

That's exactly what I do.

[Deleted User]

One of the online pharmacies told me that if you're not there to answer the door when they deliver, you'll end up having to go and collect it from the Post Office anyway, which rather defeats the point.

KxMx

Echo offer delivery to a Post Office or Royal Mail delivery office via RM Local Collect. 
Also you can have Echo send the prescription to a Lloyds Pharmacy of your choice for them to dispense. 

sheramber

JJ_Egan said:

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Where would your GP profit from prescriptions ?? are they also a Chemist .

   

My (dispensing) GP surgery refuses to deal with online pharmacies,
That is what a dispensing GP surgery is.
My GP had all the medicines in stock and the prescription was dispensed by one of their staff.
Otherwise I would have had to visit the surgery 16 miles away from my house and then travel 33 miles to the nearest chemist as it was 17 miles away in the opposite direction from my house.
 Much more convenient to collect  your drugs when you  come out from the GP.
Repeat prescriptions were ordered by phone pr online services and collected from the surgery or from the local village shop who got a delivery from the surgery each afternoon,
We don't all live in towns with a chemist on the high street.

ElizabethBaldwin

JJ Egan
 Thats not at all true  NHS purchasing has economies of scale . NHS purchasing does not do purchasing for pharmacies

GPs are open and safer than shopping . Nothing is safer than staying at home

Much is now carried out by phone so no need to visit surgery's .Many chemist also deliver now local prescriptions . My GP’s dispensary doesn’t 

Where would your GP profit from prescriptions ?? are they also a Chemist . The surgery itself has told me they need the profit from prescriptions to stay open

Your  GP not using NHS electronic service ?? No

No need to see GP order prescription via web oked by GP then sent electronically to your registered local chemist . My GP will not send my prescription anywhere but to its own dispensary or I can collect the prescription in person to take elsewhere. Why are you being so flippantly presumptuous when it is clear you don’t know what you are talking about?

ElizabethBaldwin

Jack Pott
One of the online pharmacies told me that if you're not there to answer the door when they deliver, you'll end up having to go and collect it from the Post Office anyway, which rather defeats the point. Many online pharmacies allow you to elect for your prescriptions to be left in a safe place

ElizabethBaldwin

Sheramber
We don't all live in towns with a chemist on the high street. With online pharmacies you don’t need to - you don’t understand the concept, do you?

JJ_Egan

Tough but as you have turned abusive .///////

giraffe69

I live in a rural area and my GP is not as difficult as that but they still have a large notice up about the evils of online pharmacies and clearly are not keen for them to be used.
They have their own dispensary.
They act as if the customer does not matter. Restrictive times, closing for "training" or "stock takes" with little or no notice, you have to queue outside (a Covid restriction), you can only have one month at a time even if your prescription has not changed for years so waste is not an issue, you have to give them 3 working days notice etc etc. I could have them diverted to a Chemist and only don't because I can walk to the dispensary in 30 minutes rather than having to drive around 6 miles to the Chemist.

ElizabethBaldwin

Giraffe69 - it sounds as if you would be better off using online pharmacies if you can. You order through them, they get your GPs approval and post your meds to you (and will leave in a safe space if you authorise them to) free of charge. You don’t have to deal with awkward GP surgeries or leave the home at all!