Prescription For Child Denied - Told to spend £20

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Hello, new joiner here! My GP has just assessed my DD as needing Cetirizine and Piriton day and night for the next two weeks to deal with an allergic reaction.

I was told I had to pay for the medicine myself and the GP would not provide a prescription. I said that would need 4 bottles of medication to cover the period and cost £20 and that we should not be expected to pay £20.

I absolutely understand that prescribing aspirin and paracetamol should be banned. But what do you all think about the situation above? Is this normal? Am I being unreasonable to expect a prescription in this instance?

Thank you!

I do think you are being a bit U, I see you say you’re a single parent on a very limited budget, but the anti allergy tablets, if she is not age restricted are very small so please don’t write them off for simply being tablets because they are ever so tiny (coming from someone who still chews paracetamol cps I can’t swallow it!) it’s just a case of having to do what we’ve gotta do. I hope she’s better soon and no longer needs it.

I think we all have a responsibility to the nhs, keeping appointments or making cancellations in a timely manner.

The drugs we all take for granted as for free are an amazing benefit that most of the first, second and third world don't have.

If we can shouldn't we try to but what we can.

That would have been charged at £22 to the nhs

This ^ is the problem with the NHS because they should have huge buying power and drugs should be cheaper
Who’s making the money?

If you rock up with medication for your child that isn’t prescribed you have no idea when the child last had it, if they are allergic to it, if mum and dad have different ideas on medication (it happens! - dad won’t give medication on ‘his turn’)

A prescription tells you none of that information though. That’s why it is up to the parent to communicate the information to school if school agree to give medication

Yes it does

5ml 3 times a day with food

Quite clear

A bottle of non prescribed medicine says that.

You still wouldn’t know what time that meant it was due. If dad had given it. If they where allergic to it.

A prescription doesn’t automatically document these things on the bottle.