How to order repeat prescriptions?

[Uncle Peter]

There won't be one, you'll have to call it England.d-i-y. The Welsh will f*ck off too you know. And the Irish will just blow themselves up.

[Uncle Peter]

It's nothing to do with money, they just don't know enough about blood pressure.

[dennis]

You don't have a prescribing nurse at your practice?

[dennis]

I expect the UK will still be there, England, wales, the Northen Islands etc. Only Scotland will be missing and the Northen bits aren't a part of Scotland, BTW they own the oil not Scotland.

[Uncle Peter]

The Welsh are just as keen to get away from you lot as we are, if not more. And as for Northern Ireland, that wasn't even your s in the first place, hence the IRA bombings.

WTF are you talking about?

[Bob Henson]

Yes - but they are only permitted certain specialist agreed PGD items like smoking cessation aids. Normal repeat prescriptions - which, once again, was what we where discussing, are not permitted to nurses.

[Tim Streater]

I'm assuming that your meds, like mine, are marked as "repeat" by the doctor, also that your surgery does prescribing, and that you pick your meds up from the surgery (as I do).

On our surgery website, there is a link for ordering repeat prescriptions. Go there, and you get to a website for the purpose. You have to register at the website, and perhaps it takes a short while (few days?) for that to be authorised. After that, it becomes simples.

If you don't know the surgery address, call them and ask and check that you can do as I described above.

[Tim Streater]

No, we in England are paying for you to have them free.

In fact in England most are free anyway, for one reason or another.

[Tim Streater]

The bit that you get is not a prescription for next time. It is a

*request* for a prescription. All repeats are issued by a doctor.

[Tim Streater]

Only a fool (that's you, apparently) would trust an electronic document. That can easily be edited without anyone being able to tell.

[Roger Mills]

just wait until you're independent - and no longer subsidised by

*English* taxpayers!

[Uncle Peter]

We're subsidised by all taxpayers. Just wait till we don't waste half the taxes on nuclear weapons....

[Uncle Peter]

No, everyone in the UK pays for the NHS. It's not our fault your NHS decided to charge you in addition to the taxes they already get.

No, you're like Scotland used to be. Only free if you're an OAP or on benefits. A working person did not get them free.

[Uncle Peter]

So when I ask the pharmacist for another, he asks the doctor who asks the pharmacist to give me more. What a convoluted system. I do wish the government would stop treating the public as imbeciles.

[Uncle Peter]

Banking is all done electronically. Do you keep your cash under the mattress?

[Jethro_uk]

You do know that the bodies reaction to drugs can change over time ?

[Scion]

Uncle Peter put finger to keyboard:

Yes, but you provide balance by dying early.

[Uncle Peter]

It isn't, because my BP readings are the same.

[Uncle Peter]

That's only the Glaswegians, as they exceed the recommended alcohol intake by a factor of 10.

[Capitol]

And my teetotal brother in law from Fife!