To ask my pharmacist to use my actual title on my medicine

Why not ask the local cannabis dealer for a bag - I’m sure they’ll call you anything you want!

I’m confused at what kind of relationship you’d have with a pharmacist where they even have the opportunity to show disapproval of your medication? Are you sure you’re not overthinking the whole thing?

If you pay them hundreds of pounds, side note did you know you can get a NHS pre-payment certificate which can work out cheaper? It’s £115 for 12 months.

Edit, just saw your note re private so NA

The first time you presented at a pharmacy, a profile will have been created by a dispenser or student who incorrectly input Miss rather than Ms. They will likely have been unaware of the significance of any difference. Each time you go back, the label is generated from that original profile. The checking pharmacist ensures the name matches that on the prescription together with all the other necessary medication details - with a prescription for a controlled drug, there is a long paperwork trail together with additional paperwork because it is a private prescription so this will be taking up all their time and energy.

Contrary to your insistence, this has not been done to spite you - they are just a lot more focused on all the other admin that comes with dispensing your medication. It really is not personal and the high cost is a reflection of the risk and responsibility that goes with dealing with controlled medication

As I said in an earlier post, if you really despise them that much, go find another pharmacy.

For god sake. They are beyond busy and you want to nit pick.

Don’t be daft!

I'm gonna guess that if your prescription comes through correctly, that the system that they use to produce the labels either doesn't have an option for Ms or it defaults to Miss and the pharmacist just doesn't bother changing it.

Nobody sees it apart from you. Does it really matter, honestly? I mean, you could point it out to them next time you pick up but secretly whoever you say that to is going to think you are being a bit of a petty arse.

Don’t be utterly ridiculous.

Sometimes it's worth seeming like an arse TBF

So the issue is most likely a wider NHS problem. It'll be how your details are saved on the NHS Spine.

So to solely blame the pharmacist/dispenser staff is unreasonable.

Whether it's part of the electronic system direct from the GP, the personal details will already be pre-loaded when they click the download button.

If a green prescription with the barcode, the staff will scan the script and it'll load up all the details from the spine.

It's not your name, it's just a title.

And as long as the actual medication is correct, then to be honest does it really matter?

My name is frequently misspelt in all sorts of places as it's one of those names that can be spelt about 6 different ways. Who cares.

I would refuse to take the medication out of principle.

Are you in the UK? Some of your post sounds like you might not be. Our local IT systems mean names appear as they are registered on NHS spine, which can only be updated via GP practice. Otherwise you could ask pharmacist where they pull the data from, as it’s unlikely to be free text these days to prevent transcribing errors. That might tell you where what needs updating.

It's a courtesy title and they should use it but it's not your name. When you sign a legal document such as property transfer or a will it's in your name, not your title.

Personally I don’t see why a title is needed on a prescription at all. First name surname date of birth are all that’s required.

I am usually quite strict about correct title but for this one the only person other than the pharmacist who is seeing it is you. so it’s not like they are giving an incorrect bit of information to the outside world if you see what I mean.

If I did want it to be changed and I think I’d probably go with

“oh, looks like there’s an error with my details in your system, it says Miss here and that doesn’t match my prescription. (Show Ms on prescription). Could you update that please for next time? Cheers.”

They are already very much not on my side due to openly disapproving of the prescription

What? Enough to make a written complaint? I’d move pharmacy too.

Well it's pretty trivial but no harm in asking I suppose.

On a scale of things that annoy me this would be very, very, very low down.