Ready-sorted prescription services

[Fuuuuuckit]

Does anyone have any advice/experiences of a pre-packed/organised prescription service please?

I've just spent the last 90 minutes hearing about my mother's traumas about getting her repeat prescriptions. She's on about 12 different medications, all on different repeat dates, she's got loads of one, none of another, doctor doesn't do phone repeats, pharmacy (in the same building) apparently lost her prescription when it was finally available, nobody knows what's going on, can't organise a piss up in a brewery blah blah blah. She came home with a carrier bag of pills which now need to be sorted.

She is flatly refusing a simple online, ready to go, pre-sorted prescription service as 'it gets her out of the house'. Never is it ever straightforward, there is trauma every month, always I hear about it for days afterwards. (I ordered my lifelong repeat prescription in 30 seconds, via the NHS app on her sofa whilst this discussion was had). She's about to start some lengthy treatment that is likely to add to the cocktail she's already taking, and someone me is going to have to do all this for her.

Please give me good experiences (and cautionary tales) of ready-to-take prescriptions, as I'm not sure I'm up for the faff of sorting out the mess every month, when I know it can be done so simply online!

If you find out if there is a clinical pharmacist based at the surgery they should be able to do a medication review to sort her medication so they are all in line and issued together. Otherwise she should be able to book a medication review with a GP to do this -but I’m aware availability may be an issue.
The pharmacy will then be able to do advanced repeats so that all she has to do is turn up at the pharmacy every 4 weeks to collect her medication.

MIL was moved onto dosette boxes during lockdown. The GP requested them from her assigned pharmacy and they are delivered every 4 weeks.

After some teething difficulties , they have worked well.
The challenges she’s had are : remembering where she keeps them; missing the delivery ; getting confused about the days of the week - so she may take Monday morning correctly, but then by afternoon she thinks it’s Tuesday, panics and assumes she’s forgotten to take her meds- starts calling - her family, the pharmacy, her GP

These are all of course symptoms of her declining cognitive function rather than anything wrong with the boxes themselves .

They have been a life saver for the family though, as she has many and complex prescriptions, and knowing what to give when takes a lot of worry out.

Hi I just noticed this as was glancing through for another thread so a bit late to the party.

Yes speak to the pharmacist who should be able to sort it out and order as needed.

If she is able to tap on an app when she has taken them, so like a old phone permanently plugged in. Medisafe is great and it's free. it can tell what to take and when and if it isn't registered as taken it can send a !message to the medication pal (so like a family member).

How is she getting on now @Fuuuuuckit?

Getting a Medication Review is a great idea DFIL had one recently and they've taken him off one medication and he's actually feeling a bit better for it.

If the tablets all have to be sorted, she really would or you be better having the boxes delivered from her pharmacy. She could even collect them if she still want to get out.