Echo prescription App Advert

[GoatYoga]

Can I please ask if I am the only person who is seeing the Echo Prescription ordering app all over Mumsnet? Or is it something that my phone is just deciding I need to see?

If Mumsnet is allowing Echo to advertise then it may be time to close my account.

Thank you.

Anyone - it is showing like this...

What's wrong with an echo???

What people don’t realise when using Echo is they you are in effect nominating your prescriptions to go to Greenlight Pharmacy in London.

The app isn’t clear on this is. If people want to protect their local community pharmacies and ensure they have local services for the future then apps like this should be avoided.

Most GPs will have an app linked to their own system - Vison Online, EMIS patient access etc to allow ordering and your prescription then goes to the pharmacy you choose to nominate.

I made mistake of using this thinking it was convenient for repeat prescriptions.

Then I went to GP for illness and was given a prescription and it automatically went to echo meaning I would have had to wait for the drugs a few days for them to send.

Had to go back to GP. Get them to cancel 1st one and wait for an new one not connected to echo and have them remove me from echo on their system.

Will not ever use a again.

Well said goatyoga. Use local pharmacies while they are still there.
I haven't seen the advert but use an adblock but if mn are promoting it, I'm off.

And this is the problem Totally - patients are being misled, by clever wording and the NHS logo. It is the patient who suffers.

P2U are another problem, they have sent patients to me to sort out issues when they have failed to deliver meds - I always help the patient out and then encourage them back to the pharmacy they used previously.