That is the app I use, you used to be able to book GP appointments but that service has not been available for the last couple of years and I do not see it ever coming back. The GP’s are quite happy to have us hanging on the phone on the off chance they decide that that will see us.
Yes Mr. F. I know what you mean about the online appointments withdrawn.
I have just managed to change GP surgeries, and this new one is much more efficient with adding test results to my records too. I looked up some test results last night, and it saved me either going there or sitting on the phone half the day to get the results. 
Probably Mups. I can’t see any other information that is on my records, so maybe I ought to ask if I can be given access to more.
So far I can order scrips, and complete a form about my ‘illness’.
Up here in Edinburgh your tst results are covered by tge data protection act and it is necessary to jump through all sorts of legal hoops to get them.
I had phone call from a GP yesterday wishing to discuss the MRI results i had on the 4th April i told him tyat i was not co’fortable doing this until i had seen a copy which i am waiting on as for some reason it has to come using snail mail???
Same here. They text me when the prescription is ready.
I have been using Pharmacy2U for many years now and find them reliable. I simply order the prescription online on the GP’s website, they send the prescription to Pharmacy2U and then the medication is sent to me. For example, I ordered my prescription yesterday morning and received an email from Pharmacy2U yesterday evening to say that they had received it - I shall receive another email when it is dispatched and should get the medication by Wednesday delivered by Royal Mail.
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My paper prescription is in the bag with the rest of my meds. With one weeks tablets remaining, I have a walk down to the surgery and hand it over to the cheerful and pretty reception girl.
Two days later I have another walk down to the chemist (Isn’t pharmacy a bit multi cultural?) and collect it…The walk probably does more good than the contents of the bag… 
I wondered how it had come to this. With so many people living on meds these days. When I was n’but a lad, hardly anyone took any prescription tablets unless they were ill. Today we take most of our meds ‘just in case’ or because we have high levels of this, or low levels of that. No wonder big pharma is so big…Mind you, most of the people I knew in the fifties who didn’t take meds are all dead now…
I get mine from Lloyds pharmacy a short walk from here. When I pick it up I am asked if I need the same again next time and they tick the boxes. The next pick up date is on the sealed package. Actually the prescription is assembled in Warrington quite a distance from here.
Our surgery is in the next village and I often walk down or cycle to collect prescription. If the weather is bad I drive. However, if you go down after say 7 days you are told to go back next day, sometimes they are not even ready then or you have to go to other surgery in group which is a 10 mile round trip.
I ordered my stuff on 19 April and was told that it would be ready on 3 May as it excludes weekends and bank holidays!
Someone was asking about Patient Access. I do this online through GP surgery. I can order prescriptions, see consultations, check test results etc. and it does save me having to make another trip down to hand prescription in.
I order repeat prescriptions using Patient Access to my GP. In fairness to them, the GP people are very efficient and send the prescription to a nearby chemist.
We used to use Boots who were also very efficient, but unfortunately they closed the branch recently and the other one conveniently close to us is less efficient. The medicines are usually available after a few days, but their drawback is that they appear to have a rather inefficient system of filing filled requests. I usually have to stand waiting for maybe five or ten minutes while they get their act together.
After a ten-minute wait this afternoon, I said to Marge that I didn’t understand why they don’t simply use a system of baskets, each for the initial letter of surnames, but I saw that they seem to have to hunt around in several places to find prepared prescriptions.
To be fair, now that they are the only pharmacy in the village, I suppose they are more overwhelmed.
We do the same. Our elected pharmacy is 5mins walk from the bus station in town.
I would want to know why Boots is charging £55/yr to deliver your meds when other pharmacies don’t charge a penny.
Our local pharmacy deliver for free, but I have to take my prescription to the health centre for a Doc to validate it, then they pass it on, at present it takes about a week so I make sure it goes in, in plenty of time. I get the prescriptions for 3 months at a time.
When we lived in the wilds of Devon we used Pharmacy 2 U but when mine took forever as it got sent all round Devon and Cornwall and my husband got someone else’s we stopped using them.
I order mine on line which is quick and easy and a few days later they are ready to collect in Boots. As our Boots is next door to Waitrose where we do a lot of shopping it is very convenient.
Boots won’t deliver unless we pay or we are disabled and can’t get to collect them.