WWYD? I need some advice

[2shoes]

dd has to take her new medicine 3 times a day, this means I send a bottle into school and a nurse gives her her lunchtime dose(the bottle stays at school) when she goes to respite it is suppose to go with her, trouble is it doesn't and then I get told that she has run out.
thing is she can't have as a nurse would have rung me during the week to say it was getting low.
so I am now waiting for a nurse to call to tell me if they have found it or not. I am not pleased as if she has run out, i will have to send the home bottle in and I know they will forget to send it home with her(i can't get a new bottle until at least wednesday)
I am fed up with this, surly a sn school with a team of nurses should be able to manage to do this.
should I complain?

I have decided tha I am going to get the next bottle slip in 2, on for school and one for respite.

Hi *2shoes" I had exactly the same problem with meds when son was in residential placement.

I just had to ensure that we had sufficient stocks at home for when he came back and that i monitored how much the school should have and be using in order to order a repeat prescription and ensure I sent the meds off to school in time.

I agree that we shouldn't have to do this.

Does your DDs school not have a GP connected to it - DS's did. Then prescriptions could be ordered by the school from the local GP for use at the school.

You need to watch out at the end of term - son's school forgot to send the meds home with him and when I asked them to be returned school had destroyed them [angry}

Would certainly ask school to let you know well before stocks run low.

one of the problems is that my gp won't give me more than 28 days supplie at a time! I have asked her pead to send a letter to him but nothing happens, so I do a repeat as early as I can so that i ge ab it ahead. but they should have enough of the new med, that is the annoying bit,
she only stays over at the most 2 nights a week, I did try sending the bottle in each day, but then it goes to the nurses station for safety and doesn't come home.

oh And theya re supposed to tel me when it gets low, and they do normally. I think the bottle is sitting in the school tbh.

thats just daft the gp only giving 28 days supply in this situation!

a few of ds meds are taken at lunchtime in school and i usually work out how long each bottle/pack of tablets should last for and send in fresh supplies before it runs out.
i also send a duplicate supply of what i have at home down to my mums as well as he stays over on a friday night, so i dont have to bother sending it down each time.

i usually end up getting 8 bottles of domperidone and 6 bottles of nitrazepam at a time right enough, among other things.

i swear the chemist sighs when they see me coming in!

it is silly, the good thing is I have a lovely chemist I know if I ring him monday morning he will order it in and have it by tuesday and lend it to me.
still won't help me monday/tuesday.

only other thing i could suggest is getting it from a hospital pharmacy thru nhs 24? i did this before when it was the holidays and i dropped and spilt one of ds's meds bottles.

ive also phoned nhs 24 before for an emergency prescription and they have phoned it thru to a chemist that had the drug in stock and i just went and picked it up half an hour later.

i don't think it would be considered a emaergency|(it is meds to stop her extra movements) I do have a feeling the school have some though as she has had it today, so hopefully they can use theirs if nned be.

good news I have spoken to the nurse, dd does still have some of the medicine at school,.seems there were problems getting to it over the weekend, so they borrowed some.
so panic over

yay!