Prescription Delivery Service

hb2

I use Lloyds on-line (free) and have had no problems, even during postal strikes.

helpfulflowers

I use a local independent pharmacy and they are brilliant, I used Lloyds for years for both me and my dad but they wanted to charge for deliveries during lockdown so I went elsewhere! The new one has never let me down yet!

Muttleythefrog

I use pharmacy2u. The service is generally good. Frustrating that lately they're usually grossly oversized packaging for my medications that would otherwise comfortably fit through letterbox. Their reminder service is a pain in the rear rather than helpful I find - spend my time trying to delete the things. But they've been pretty flawless in sending prescriptions as my nominated pharmacy. 

wild666

born_again said:

My mother always found Boots to be good. But like everywhere, it varies on branch.

As others, ring round other local pharmacy & see if they do.

Boots started charging for the delivery of prescriptions, I think it was 2019, the price was £5 per month or £55 for a years delivery, so I cancelled the delivery service and now email the request in and they send it to a local Boots less than 0.7 miles from me, I pop on my mobility scooter and collect the prescription myself, it gets me out of the flat for a while.

GTG

First of all thank you to BACKTOBACK for starting this conversation, thank you.

I am looking to find a reliable delivery service for my other half's repeat prescriptions for her epilepsy medications. As a member of Which Magazine I cannot see any reviews from them so thought I would pop in here and ask the community for their opinions. 

There appears to be quite a few firms in the market with the biggest ones being Pharmacy2u, Lloyds Pharmacy, Chemists 4 U, UK Meds and Direct Pharmacy. 

 I think an important criteria - other than regulatory compliance - for choosing one would be a firm that packages everything in packages that can fit through a standard size letterbox so one does not need to be in to take delivery. However, perhaps they all do that otherwise they would lose out to those that do?

I would be grateful for any recommendations and/or any to stay clear of.  

GTG

Bumpy bumpy :-)

Flugelhorn

there are a  few online ones in the business. The local ones will always be looking at the costs / benefits of doing deliveries - they seem to be very busy these days and probably have no need to attract extra business (which is basically why they do the deliveries) - they don't get any more money if they deliver, it all comes out of the per item dispensing fee 

GTG

Flugelhorn said:

there are a  few online ones in the business. The local ones will always be looking at the costs / benefits of doing deliveries - they seem to be very busy these days and probably have no need to attract extra business (which is basically why they do the deliveries) - they don't get any more money if they deliver, it all comes out of the per item dispensing fee 

Thank you for your input Flugelhorn.

Savvy_Sue

GTG said:

First of all thank you to BACKTOBACK for starting this conversation, thank you.

I am looking to find a reliable delivery service for my other half's repeat prescriptions for her epilepsy medications. As a member of Which Magazine I cannot see any reviews from them so thought I would pop in here and ask the community for their opinions. 

There appears to be quite a few firms in the market with the biggest ones being Pharmacy2u, Lloyds Pharmacy, Chemists 4 U, UK Meds and Direct Pharmacy. 

 I think an important criteria - other than regulatory compliance - for choosing one would be a firm that packages everything in packages that can fit through a standard size letterbox so one does not need to be in to take delivery. However, perhaps they all do that otherwise they would lose out to those that do?

I would be grateful for any recommendations and/or any to stay clear of.  

Is it possible that for some drugs, a signature will be required? I don't know if this would apply to anti-seizure medication, but would be worth checking ... 

I can only go back to what I said much earlier in the thread. Individual local pharmacies provide a very variable service, in my experience. AFAIK our local pharmacy continues to do a good job of the deliveries we managed to arrange during Covid, but I wouldn't recommend their in-person service, you're often waiting over half an hour to be asked what you're there for! They are run off their feet. 

Flugelhorn

the drugs that require a signature / ID are "controlled drugs" of assorted schedules  - mainly opiates and amphetamines - anti seizure medication should be OK.