I've spent the day mostly sleeping on the sofa, as my blocked nose stopped me from sleeping last night. So, I shall be awake all night again. I don't think anybody can sleep 24 hrs a day!
I totally agree HH. Electronic prescriptions are a total joke. I still insist on collecting a paper one from the surgery despite the fact that they now insist it takes 3 days to produce. They don't seem to realise that the electronic system used to request repeat prescriptions shows when the GP has created it, generally the same day it's requested.
The surgery's own website even admits that they have no control over how long pharmacies take to action electronic prescriptions and I'm not going into town umpteen times in the hope that it has been actioned.
I won't use the pharmacy which is literally 400 yards from home because the staff in there are so rude.
Here if you see a doctor you get a paper prescription in your hand which you take to the chemist round the corner and walk out 10 mins later with your pills. Repeat prescriptions can be done electronically (takes about 3-4 days) or you take your paper order form to the doctors and then pick up your pills 3-4 days later from the chemist. Seems to work fine here. Anything unusual the chemist will order in and it arrives next day.
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Similar situation here. One off prescriptions are paper and done at the on site chemist with a few minutes’ wait.
Repeat prescriptions are managed by our local Boots chemist who liaise with the GP practice electronically. They send a text to my mobile when they are ready for me to collect and the always ensure I have at least a week’s meds in hand ... more if i let them know that we’re going away. It works very well.
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The system seems to work fine here and we get prescriptions for free. I guess I could be curmudgeonly about never needing any but that's a hard thing to be grumpy about.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Much the same as Doves here although I only get one pot of pills a month on NHS, the rest that I need, they won’t supply (too expensive they say!) so I have to buy those privately.
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We have an automated phone line for repeat prescriptions - if you call the surgery before 11am, the pills are usually at the Pharmacy by 2pm, and if not, the pharmacist rings the surgery and they sort it between them while you wait, if they are familiar with you and your 'usual'. It's a while since we had a new prescription but I think they still hand over bits of paper.
This morning's grump from me is that the Government have decided to stop paying people with solar panels for the power they export to the grid. I can understand why they are stopping paying the 'feed in tariff' for power generated - solar panels are cheap enough now that the cost to the taxpayer isn't justified. But not paying for the excess generated (i.e. what your panels make that you don't use yourself) just means that the big energy companies get a load of free power. I very much doubt they'll reduce their charges as a result
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“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Our surgery has actually made the situation worse for themselves. When our surgery operated separately, there are now 4 surgeries combined onto one site, my prescription was issued for 3 months at a time. As my prescription and health situation has remained unaltered for several years, that seems a sensible time period. When I collected the prescription from the pharmacy a few months ago the quantity had been reduced to 2 months. Assuming it had been done in error I contacted the surgery to check. No error, they have simply decided to change the period, and don't issue any prescription for more than 2 months. At a stroke, they have increased their workload for patients with chronic but stable conditions by 50%. This at a time when we have to wait weeks for an appointment anyway. If all patients were being contacted for review that might make sense, but I certainly haven't been called in.
Idiots who fly drones and close down a major airport quite frankly make me beyond curmudgeonly. I imagine them sitting in their sad little bedroom(s) thinking it's really funny.......
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Repeat prescriptions are managed by our local Boots chemist who liaise with the GP practice electronically. They send a text to my mobile when they are ready for me to collect and the always ensure I have at least a week’s meds in hand ... more if i let them know that we’re going away.
It works very well.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
This morning's grump from me is that the Government have decided to stop paying people with solar panels for the power they export to the grid. I can understand why they are stopping paying the 'feed in tariff' for power generated - solar panels are cheap enough now that the cost to the taxpayer isn't justified. But not paying for the excess generated (i.e. what your panels make that you don't use yourself) just means that the big energy companies get a load of free power. I very much doubt they'll reduce their charges as a result
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”