Picking up a prescription when self isolating

[SpongeCake23]

Does anyone know how this is will work?

You have to ask someone you know to do it for you and leave it on your doorstep

I was self isolating but symptomless so I rang my local pharmacy and they agreed I could wait outside and ring them and they would bring my medicines out to me (asthma/immune meds for DS). Worth asking yours if they'd do the same?

Ask someone to collect it for you. Ring the pharmacy to check they're open before they go - many are operating on different to standard hours.

I haven’t got anyone to collect it for me 😢 obviously we’re all self isolating in the house due to a cough. Although mine started a week ago tomorrow. Does that mean I’m allowed out at 7 days? I’m confused at the guidelines.

Will they deliver?

Our local pharmacy has a list of volunteers to deliver medicines. Call yours and see if its the same?

Have it delivered by Echo

Get it delivered. A local pharmacy (not a boots/Lloyds/Rowlands) likely offer free delivery still. We do. They will deliver to your doorstep might even post through the letterbox depending on the contents. Phone your pharmacy and find out, your doctors surgery will also know which pharmacies locally deliver.

I'm worried about this too. We live rurally so our GP is a dispensing practice, which means we can only pick up our repeat prescriptions by going to the dispensary counter inside the surgery. Services like Echo are not available to us, in this situation the surgery has a monopoly on fulfilling prescriptions.

As the surgery has closed its doors and only admits those that have been called back for urgent appointments, I have no idea how we will get our prescriptions. DH has a very serious heart condition and relies on a combination of 12 different meds on a daily basis. We have enough for the next couple of weeks and have submitted a repeat request as usual to pick up the next months supply.

Frankly the last place I want to go is inside the GP surgery, we have been practising social distancing for over a week now to prevent any of us passing infection on to DH.

@ChequerBoard legally you can get your prescription sent to any pharmacy in the county you like. The surgery is not allowed to dictate where you collect your prescription from. Some pharmacies may go and collect prescriptions from your doctors thty may also offer a post service where they send a S.A.E to your surgery for them to post the prescription to them, for you to then pick up the prescription from that pharmacy. If in England and electronic you can get the prescription sent anywhere really.

@DeathMetalMum you'd think so, but the surgery has not joined the electronic prescription service so I can't nominate a pharmacy (ironically I worked to set that programme up years ago). I could get a printed, signed FP10 and take to another pharmacy but then I would still need to go I to the surgery to collect the FP10!

Gah!

@ChequerBoard Would a local pharmacy not collect? We're on the wales/England boarder and we go and collect prescriptions from English surgeries. I understand your frustration!

Lots of pharmacies will deliver. I'm using Pharmacy2U who deliver for free.

Do you have a local mutual aid group on Facebook? We have one where someone posts what they need help with and someone will volunteer.

Can you ask a neighbour? Or a mutual aid group?

Chequerboard - your GP/pharmacy must surely have a way to deal with this, there will be loads of others needing repeat prescriptions.
We have a similar setup. DH got ours (his serious bagful, my more modest set) -there was a nurse practitioner in the lobby scanning people's temperature and checking why they were there. Picking up repeat prescriptions from the pharmacy was fine.

There's no point asking MN, you need to ring your pharmacy and ask how you pick up his meds.