Out of medication

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I was prescribed quetiapine, sertraline and diazepam by the crisis team they gave me two weeks worth I've been discharged by them now but I've just realised I only have two days of medication left and I'm not sure where I'm supposed to get it from, will my GP give it to me? I don't think he'd even know I'd been prescribed it so would I need to make an appointment or can I just request a prescription from reception
Not the diazepam just the other two because I'm assuming I'm supposed to keep taking them?

Call your GP. The crisis team will have written to the GP. If not request an emergency GP apt.

You need to call your GP -get an emergency appointment if you have to. You won’t be able to just get a new repeat prescription without them issuing it.

The crisis team will have let your GP know, so phone your GP and ask for an emergency prescription

Thanks sorry if I'm being really stupid here by contact GP do you mean the doctor surgery receptionist and ask them to ask the doctor or make an actual GP appointment?
I don't want to get it wrong because the receptionists are scary and mean and I'll probably actually cry if they're rude to me but I don't ever understand how to do this stuff so I just avoid it but I can't really

Contact the reception and explain that you were started on new medication by the crisis team and that you're about to run out and need a repeat prescription. Hopefully the doctors will already have received a letter with all the details. If so, and if they have a practice pharmacist, they may be able to set up a repeat prescription without the need for a GP appointment. But if not, ask for an emergency appointment with the GP to get it sorted out

Make sure you are clear with them that you only have a couple of days left so you need a prescription straight away.

Also if you have the nhs app the medication may well be on there and you can just request a repeat to be processed by GP

The go receptionist said the crisis team didn't tell them and that I had to call the crisis team so I called them and say they did so now I'm just stuck

Ask crisis team to send it over to GP now by email and to tell you that’s it’s gone and what email it went to

Thanks someone from the crisis team came and dropped a prescription off for me in the end so now I guess I need to make a GP appointment in the meantime to ask them to do it as a repeat prescription or something! I don't know why this is all so confusing or if I'm just thick or something

The GP will want the instruction from the crisis team before they issue you prescriptions, especially for diazepam and quetiapine.

Basically how it works is that when you access secondary care (crisis team) you see specialists who can prescribe medicines GPs won't/can't start you on in primary care. This is because a GP is personally liable for their prescribing decisions, they can and do refuse to prescribe without instruction, this is perfectly normal they aren't just being awkward!

I've been in the same situation, I wanted to increase my medication dose and the GP wouldn't without instruction from the secondary care psychiatrist. Once they had the letter it was fine. In the mean time they would only prescribe what they had already been instructed to.

Your GP will receive the instruction from the MH team - this can take a few days (hopefully no more) and then your GP will handle it. I would make an appointment now but check before you attend the appointment that they have received the letter or you will get nowhere. In the mean time the crisis team/secondary care will sort your prescriptions.