I had collect OHâs mums Morphine. Â Then they were reluctant to give it to me, Â I told them to phone the care home if they didnât believe me. Â Itâs how the care homes seem to work down here.Â
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I can understand that to an extent @lyn ... your mum lived at home ... but Hosta's OH now lives at the Care Home ... when Pa lived at the Lovely Home and Ma still lived in their house, his meds were delivered to the Lovely Home ... gawd knows what would've happened if they'd relied on Ma to collect them ... she wasn't really reliable with her own meds let alone someone else's! And when my son was delivering meds for a pharmacy during lockdown he certainly delivered morphine and other Controlled Drugs to people's private homes or care homes. if that's where they were living. Â
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Every month there's a cock up with his meds and they say " Oh , it shouldn't happen. His meds should come here, NOT to you. We'll sort it for next month"Â hey ho
I've just had an email from the RHS to say that because of VAT changes following Br***t, they can no longer send their monthly magazine ("The Garden") to Europe...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
The meds from our local health centre is all over the place at the moment. I order mine through the POD (a telephone ordering service linked to the surgery) and the order goes through to the chemist. But for some reason they stopped my husband from ordering all of his this way and half of them have to be dispensed through the surgery each month. He is on a repeat prescription so it should work OK but after his last meds review he was finding that the surgery meds had to be dispensed separately every time and every time the nurse told him it was now fixed but it took a good 4 months for them to go back on repeat. He has COPD but can only get his inhalers once a week, not once a month. I am hearing similar stories all over the place so I'm not surprised @Hostafan1 is also experiencing problems. I don't know if the system is fracturing because of covid, staff shortages or Br***t.
@Liriodendron, when I got back from my yoga class last night there was a programme on C4 . I missed most of it but the gist seemed to be about the number of UK businesses having to relocate some or all of their operations to the EU, due to VAT and other regulations making their exports to EU either prohibitively expensive or near impossible đ
@didyw , If Inhalers are not lasting a month and new ones are needed every week, then I would expect alarm bells to be ringing somewhere as the patient should be urgently reviewed by a GP or specialist COPD nurse.
There is no reason why a nursing home should not be ordering all of a patients medication,including controlled drugs, and they should be delivered directly to the home. All deliveries to a Nursing Home are signed for, whether controlled drugs like morphine or something innocuous like fortisip.
@fidgetbones .... you'll know better than I, but could it be that @Hostafan1's OH's GP hasn't changed his OH's address so the prescription states his old home address, and presumably that's what the pharmacy has to adhere to? Â
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Thanks @fidgetbones - in fact he has two sorts of inhalers - the regular blue ones that he has monthly and another booster type thing that he uses once a day. That's the one he has to get weekly.
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 Itâs how the care homes seem to work down here.Â
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.