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I thought using pharmacy 2u would make things easier but i was wrong

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elliejjtiny · 10/10/2025 22:23

When our dr surgery stopped doing prescriptions over the phone i switched to pharmacy 2 u and it's been great. I only have 2 medications and i get 3 months supply at a time so i just order them 4 times a year and they get delivered. Dh didn't want to switch so he's been going in to the dr surgery once a month, ordering his prescriptions and picking them up from boots about a week later. Dh asked me to switch to pharmacy 2 u, which i did. He is on 7 different meds which all have to be ordered once a month. So i do it the first time and one of the medications (the most important one, naturally) gets lost somewhere and i get told to order it again. I keep getting emails saying that the prescription has been at the dr surgery for several days and can i chase it up. Which i do but it means 45 minutes on hold at the GP surgery every time and I've had to do it 3 times already this month. It's just so frustrating.

Add in all the appointments I've had to chase up for the dc and the joy that is DLA/PIP it feels like i spend half my life listening to a robot voice telling me that i am caller number 15.

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Runnersandtoms · 10/10/2025 22:25

That sounds like a doctor problem not a pharmacy 2u problem. I've never had to chase ours, they come within about 5 days of ordering.

HarryVanderspeigle · 10/10/2025 22:29

Can,you order them on the nhs app? I do all my prescriptions through that now and it goes to my nominated pharmacy.

justasking111 · 10/10/2025 22:38

I've had enough of stuff not being agreed by GP, shortage at the pharmacy/warehouse so I get it all delivered now. Pay an annual fee and it's their problem. When it arrives I check off. Anything missing I check with pharmacy, but it's usually the GP.

I did this delivery because one month I had to go back three times to the chemist and surgery next door. Needing two new hips it was very painful.
Now I can't even drive.

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elliejjtiny · 11/10/2025 14:07

Thank you. No i can't use the nhs app unfortunately. I've never had a problem with pharmacy 2 u before, but then i didn't use it very often.

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elliejjtiny · 15/10/2025 08:24

Another email from pharmacy 2 u saying that dh's prescription has been with the dr surgery for several days now and could i contact them. So fed up with this.

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