New (?) Nhs Electronic Prescriptions.

[daz1969]

Hello, I see that the NHS Electronic prescription service is being rolled out to all practices on the 18th of November, I've been using the service for a good while now but my issue is that I live in England but work in Wales & I would like to nominate a pharmacy in Wales to collect my meds, but up to now I can't because of the Wales being a different country, with this being rolled out all over the UK will I be able to collect my meds in Wales now? Thank you.

[Old_Geezer]

We have a paper system that works, is flexible, and needs no fixing.
I'd hate to have meds posted to me or have to nominate a particular chemist. Who knows where I'd be when the meds needed topping up ?

[hc4361]

OG, there is a facility for that. When I was called away from home for a week because of an emergency my GP whizzed the prescription through to the chemist closest to where I was staying. No problem, got prescription say day as I asked for it.
Couldn't have done that with the old paper prescription.

[bhg481]

Further to hc4361's reply, on one occasion our pharmacy was unable to get one of my wife's medications. They rang around, found another local pharmacy which had stocks and transferred the prescription to them. Thus we were able to go to the other pharmacy and collect it ie, exactly the same as if we had a paper prescription in our hand.

[Old_Geezer]

That's good. Still involved phoning up and getting past the receptionist, and getting a GP to act within days, though. Tend to feel that a prescription in the pocket might be worth two in the Internet ;-)

[hc4361]

Have you thought about changing GP, OG? Yours sound dreadful if you have to jump through those hoops to get a prescription.

[dannyk13]

Og, Why do you need to get past a receptionist? I just phone the chemist who orders the prescription from the surgery.

[hc4361]

And I order online from my GP.

[dannyk13]

Hc //And I order online from my GP.//
It appears to be the case that there is no standard system.My chemist has a list of my repeat prescriptions and I just order what I need from there.

[hc4361]

I used to do it like that, danny, before my GP adopted the Patient Access system.
Now I just log in, tick the boxes and press enter. I can see when my meds were last issued, book appointments, and see the appointments I already have. It's a fabulous system.

https://www.patientaccess.com/

[emeritus]

I use Patient Access. Its a brilliant system for Booking Appointments and Repeat Prescriptions. 2 Working Day turn around on Prescriptions.

[hc4361]

I'm very lucky - same day for me, delivered to the door. :)

[Old_Geezer]

Chemists don't get a prescription until the doc writes one, and you get to the doc via a receptionist.

[hc4361]

You're behind the times, OG. If you have repeat prescriptions most chemists will handle the whole thing for you, like Lloyds

http://www.lloydspharmacy.com/en/info/nhs-repeat-prescriptions