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In civilised countries like Scotland, we have a thing called an NHS which means all prescriptions are free to any age.
In civilised countries like Scotland, we have a thing called an NHS which means all prescriptions are free to any age.
I've completely given up with my local phamacy - opening hours are short, and then when my wife managed to nip in her lunchbreak she found that the pharmacist has a 90 min lunch break from 12-1:30. Handy.
Docs surgery isn't so bad, but insist they can't take repeat requests by phone for security reasons. I went in, stood at the reception desk and told them the exact same info I'd given them on the phone yet somehow that seemed fine. They couldn't tell me why it was ok that a random person with no ID was fine in person, but not on the end of a phoneline...
I now use the local tesco store. Pharmacy is open from 06:30 to 22:30 so it's easy to drop in at a time convenient to me. All their systems are computerised so I just mention what I want and within seconds they've found it on the system and it's delivered electronically to the drs, and then signed electronically and returned to be picked up next day.
For my regular repeat (asthma inhalers) that I need monthly they automatically request them for me so I just pick them up when I need them.
The 5 pharmcists who work there are also polite, friendly and genuinely helpful.
As much as I'd like to hate the evil empire that is tesco, they do this
*really* well :-)Obviously, while I'm in there I'll pick up the milk I wanted, and a loaf and a few other bits and before I know I've spent 20 quid :-)
Darren
Only because we English pay for them on your behalf, as with many things. Independence for Scotland, I say - I'd vote for it, but as usual the English are dis-enfranchised.
The pharmacist is not allowed to print prescriptions. As would appear normal, your knowledge of those things about which you pontificate is a tad thin on the ground. The prescriptions are printed and signed by the doctor only. The repeat slips are returned if you require them, but they are not prescriptions and have no validity in law.
And an inordinate amount of arrogance, if you think you know better than a qualified doctor - and everyone else by the sounds of it.
I most certainly am voting for it. I don't want anything to do with the snooty English.
This thread is about REPEAT prescriptions.
As for the first ones, in this day and age surely electronic copies can be sent? Mandatory paperwork in 2014?!?
I had a LOT of visits to a private cardiologist a couple of years ago, who worked out what tablets worked best for me. I got my own blood pressure meter, which he made sure agreed with his diagnosis, and told me to keep an eye on it. It's the same reading as it was the last time I saw him, so obviously no change is necessary.
You don't need qualifications to know if your blood pressure is too high.
Yes. Exactly the same applies as with the first time one is issued and whether they are NHS or private. In the case of private ones, there are no automatic patient copies.
They can be sent via the NHS spine and downloaded by the pharmacist, albeit the system is dreadful and years behind schedule. Exactly the same applies, the doctor is the only person who can issue one, and it must bear his electronic signature.
If you were referred to a cardiologist, your condition must have been unusual or serious, or it would have been dealt with by your GP. Bearing that in mind, you are claiming to know about all the myriad other conditions that can affect someone with high blood pressure, and every single problem that can arise from its treatment? My God, you are arrogant.
Your doctor is busy, and doesn't need Johnnie Knowalls bunging up his surgery - so you can be sure that if he wants you to go in for a check now and then, that there is a good reason for it, and it is in your own interest. In your case, he could be forgiven for thinking that if you don't care a damn about your health, then why should he - but he will still call you in because that's what professional people do. I've heard the same story time and time again over the years - for you are not alone in thinking that you know better than everyone else. Luckily, most people will have the intelligence to realise that that is not the case when it is explained to them.
So it IS electronic. So I don't get your "The pharmacist is not allowed to print prescriptions". If they are not sent by post physically, then they MUST be printed at the pharmacist end.
"Unusual", because the GP I had at the time (the useless one) couldn't find a cause for my symptoms. He thought my blood pressure was normal. The cardiologist was extremely concerned and said my bloodpressure was "dangerously high".
And also, GPs don't or don't like prescribing blood pressure tablets.
I've already been checked, all I'm doing is watching if the pressure changes. If it did, then I'd refer to the cardiologist to check if I should take more/less or no pills.
He probably gets paid each time I go in. If no patients ever went in, he'd have no money.
It's just simple numbers on my blood pressure meter. I've been diagnosed, all I'm checking for is changes. The GP wouldn't do anything more than take my blood pressure anyway, which is precisely what I'm doing at home.
No they are not. There is no printed prescription when they are transmitted electronically - just the data, electronically signed by the doctor. In the early stages of the scheme, there was a non-legally-valid copy printed by the doctor, but those should have gone by now. The eventual aim was to do away with written prescriptions altogether, but if the NHS continues in its normal bumbling, incompetent way it won't be in my lifetime and possibly not in my grandsons' either.
Well at least you won't post in a UK news group when we get rid of you. (some chance!)
There are other people that can sign prescriptions besides doctors. Even pharmacists can prescribe some stuff normally and a lot more in an emergency (however that is defined).
Its Scotland, they are trying to save the money they will lose if you go independent or if the rest of us decide you shouldn't get so much extra cash from the tax pot.
Under specialised circumstances, but not normal repeat prescriptions in General Practice - which was what was under discussion.
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