how to students registered at GP at uni address get enough meds to last over long summer break? Will the GP issue for a longer period than usual?
dd just got stuck without meds because uni gp would not issue script before she came home for Easter. 111 finally came good but it has taken two days and many many calls.
how is it meant to work?
saga of last two days below for those with time for it!
DD1 is home from uni for ten days over Easter. She needs regular meds - v important and can’t be skipped. Uni GP would not issue repeat prescription early so she couldn’t get meds before she left Uni city to come home. She asked a friend who lives near us to pick them up from pharmacy at uni city but they forgot.
so she doesn’t have enough meds to last her until she can get to pharmacy near uni. Only a couple of days short but every dose is essential.
She calls 111 who send a ‘referral’ to pharmacy she used before she relocated to uni. They refused to issue it because she hasn’t had meds from them for more than three months and so they need a prescription rather than a referral.
Back to 111 who send script to local boots to be picked up today - Easter Sunday. DD handles all of this herself.
she is working this afternoon so I volunteer to pick up meds. Boots is closed. Not open until Tuesday (when DD travels back to Uni).
I call 111 again to explain and basically lose four hours on wild goose chases and end up sitting in a pharmacy for over two hours while 111 fail to understand the prescription needs reissuing and then, when I get to speak to a dr she first refuses to issue it because I am not the patient, then gives me a hard time for did allowing herself to run out of meds and then grudgingly issues enough to get dd to uni city.
the whole thing was frustrating and unpleasant.
And she’s not the only one - chatted to man in pharm with same condition as dad who had been without meds for three days and 111 had also sent him to pharm with a referral which they refused to honour etc etc