Prescription advice

[wingsnthat]

I was given a prescription for an item of 150ml size during a hospital appointment. The item only comes in 100ml size - 150ml doesn’t exist.

A pharmacist said they can give me the 100ml but the other 50ml listed would get written off. Does anyone know if this is my only option?

Tried calling the hospital but can’t get through as the secretary is on annual leave and no one is manning the general line. Any clarification would be great

HP OP

Have you been prescribed a specific brand name, or a generic version?

If my G.P. prescribes a brand, I can only have it in the pack sizes made by the manufacturer. If I get the generic version, the pharmacist will give me the amount on the prescription (they have empty dispensing bottles of various sizes to decant liquid medication into).

I'd suggest phoning your G.P. surgery to explain. They might change your prescription to 2 x 100ml instead.

It is highly unlikely they would write another prescription. If there isn't a 150ml size then it will have to be the 100ml size. I suppose you could ask your GP to reissue the prescription for 200ml, but good luck on how long that will take. I think you'll have to just accept the situation. If there are going to be further prescriptions issued by your GP, you could ask them to "up" the amount issued on future prescriptions - many prefer to provide a reasonable amount, within safe guidelines, because writing lots of repeat prescriptions is time consuming.

You’ll have to speak to your gp

To an extent it depends what it is. If the consultant has prescribed say, an oral medicine that must be taken as prescribed, I expect your GP will do a prescription for an additional 100ml when you are due to run out of the first, or possibly anyway depending on the nature of the medication/if it is a controlled drug etc. The pharmacist cannot give you more than is prescribed and can only give in the amounts available for a liquid.

The consultant clearly has out of date info on manufacturing, which does happen.

Personally I would be popping a note in to the doctors surgery (your own GP) and they will look into it. If it is urgent and you run out of a necessary medicine, urgent GP callback or 111 can also assist but you really need to resolve it through your GP.

Yes think the consultant got mixed up. They wrote down item 1 then crossed it out and wrote item 2 down on the same prescription so perhaps he wrote the amount for item 1.

Ahhh my GP is a pain to contact. My options are get the lesser amount today or do whole 8am rigmarole for an appointment on Monday for the right amount.

Hiya I would take a photo or copy then get the lesser amount today.
Email the photo urgently* to the surgery with query to be answered next week.

*Bear in mind Bank Hol weekend.

Are pharmacist allowed to remove and discard 50ml from a bottle, what medication is it.,

Thank you all. I have picked it up now. Thanks for reminding me of the bank holiday - I would rather start treatment now vs Tuesday!

Oh good, have a great weekend.

Not sure you’ll get it from your GP - it sounds like this is a consultant’s mistake so you should really contact the consultant’s secretary to get a new prescription. It’s unlikely the GP will have a clinic letter by Monday so therefore won’t have the prescription information from the consultant in order to correct it. That then means the GP has to contact the hospital to get a letter typed to get it sent over so that they can then prescribe (this can take days or weeks).

I know you’ve dealt with it now OP, but in general cut out the middle man and go back to a consultant of ours they who have done something in the first place.

What drug is it