Does anybody have their prescriptions delivered by the likes of Lloyds Pharmacy, Boots, Pharmacy2U etc? If so would you recommend the service?
We have been getting ours for years from our GP which has their own pharmacy. It is poor now and have a wait time of 10 days and often they send you to another of their surgeries which is a 10 mile round trip.
I didn’t realise until tonight that they get paid £1.27 per item. That accounts for the poster in our GP surgery which says these firms offering free delivery are nothing to do with them.
Seems to me these services save us on fuel or bus fares, they don’t involve queuing up (45 minutes queue for me the other day at our surgery) and it is free!
Usually Lloyds for us but we have used other services. But recently the service has had some glitches. I had a dermatology follow up for two weeks. We could not find the prescription anywhere. We called the hospital and they kindly got us some samples but that not the regular route.
I order through the NHS website and have it sent to Tescos pharmacy, where I pick it up
We used to have Mum’s delivered but it was a bit of a mare, because they sometimes got it wrong and you had a hell of a job getting them to put it right
I have been using this company for about 20yrs now and find them very reliable. They send me an email reminder when my meds are due - I tick the boxes - GP verifies - meds arrive a couple of days later.
Yes, we have had that problem too. Not the NHS in this case but with the vet/pharmacy. It’s for Max, our dog. The medication is for 1 microgram. They regularly screw it up and list it as 1 milligram. That would be 1,000 times the dose.
My Mum used to have her prescription medication delivered by the pharmacy, free of charge.
It’s a useful service if you have mobility issues or if it’s inconvenient to collect it.
My GP surgery and pharmacy are only a ten minute walk from my home, so I prefer to collect mine.
I can order a repeat prescription online, the GP surgery send the prescription request directly to the Well pharmacy next door - the pharmacy send me a text message when it’s ready for me to collect.
Really easy.
Request online.
Text from pharmacy when ready.
Walk along and pick it up.
Takes around 5/6 days in total.
For some reason paper prescriptions are still a thing even though we were told that these would be phased out long before now but unfortunately what our government tells us will happen invariably differs from what actually takes place.
My local pharmacy (Well) could do that for me but one of my medications is variable on how often I take it so being able to order it when I need it makes sense.
Due to severely limited time, I wasn’t going to reply to any threads today, but this question deserves an answer.
Yes, I do use a nominated pharmacy delivery service. I use a small family chain Kamson’s. They are excellent and I would not change any other. They check my request e-mail for what I have requested and then pass that through to my NHS doctor’s repeat prescription pharmacist who then issues electronic scripts to Kamson who in turn then prints out the paper scripts for NHS purposes a well as making up the meds bag ready for their driver to deliver to me. Any queries and Kamson’s head pharmacist will get involved and sort everything out even if a very close alternative has to be substituted due to national shortages. When my bag is delivered it also contains a copy of my full repeat meds list and a copy of everything dispensed & delivered.
I cannot recommend this service highly enough.
