To take children to get prescription.

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From the doctors surgery..

Had a call with a doctor yesterday for DS. She was working from home but sent a prescription over to the surgery pharmacy. As far as I know you don’t go inside. You queue and pick it up from a window of some sorts. Haven’t got any regular prescriptions so I have no idea how it all works over there.

They said it would be ready later today but the pharmacy has limited hours.

Oh was hoping to pick it up around his shift today but the limited hours the pharmacy is open means he couldn’t. It wasn’t open before he went to work and will be shut by the time he finished

Would it be okay to take them? They haven’t been anywhere apart from walks in 4 weeks. It’s also a 10 minute drive.

I cannot leave them in the car if the collection point is out of sight. They are too young. There could be a queue, it’s hot. They would have to get out the car.

It’s not urgent. I could wait until Monday but again it will be the same around my partners shifts next week!

So okay to take them I assume? Considering the prescription is actually for DS too.

Of course it is ok to take them it is an essential journey.

If you have a local mutual aid group they may do runs to the surgery anyway and be able to collect it for you - ours does this, it reduces people in the surgery and means you don’t have to go.

It would be fine to go though!

Why do you think this isn't okay?

Of course it's ok. Our gp sends prescriptions to a local pharmacy though, could yours not do that?

Probably because of all the frothing curtain twitchers out there shaming people for things that are actually fine, Cats.

Our pharmacy has volunteers delivering medication to take pressure off our normal delivery system. They might have a similar set up that would save you going out with the children.

You're not allowed in our pharmacy. You queue out the front and they bring it out to you. Everyone stands 2m apart so I think it's fine to take kids

@fedupwiththisshitnow it’s closer and more convenient for most people to go to the surgery. They have a very effective dispensary there. Live in a very rural area where the nearest pharmacy is further away than the doctors 😀

I believe that’s similar to my doctors
@ChipsAreLife. The doctor said there’s a little hatch people queue up outside!

The legislation states:

6.*—(1) During the emergency period, no person may leave the place where they are living without reasonable excuse.

The next section then lists a series of actions which it specifically includes as a reasonable excuse. It is not an exhaustive list, but this is what has confused people as some think it is.

Therefore whilst there is guidance (some of which is utterly flawed), the test for leaving home is purely does a person have a reasonable excuse!

OP what you have described is clearly a reasonable excuse.

Yes of course you can take them.

Ah so you don't need to go to the pharmacy afterwards with the prescription?

Our doctor doesn't dispense medication, only prescriptions which you then take to pharmacy to collect but they've been faxing them now to save 2 trips.

No I’ll be picking the said item up from the surgery @fedupwiththisshitnow. Should have made that clearer 😀

My old doctors was like that. The never dispensed items from the surgery and sent you off with a prescription to get elsewhere but my new one dispense most things from the surgery. I think it’s because a large majority of patients in the area are elderly and parking in the town centre to go to the only chemist can be a bit of a faff. I’m not really sure.

Our gp has a dispensary that covers some areas inc our village. I think it’s historic. Go can dispense if no pharmacy in your village. It’s odd as there is actually a pharmacy next to the gp surgery (different village) but because I live in x village my prescription goes to dispensary room in Gp building and you queue at a hatch to get it.