A new way to get your medicines and appliances

The Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) is an NHS service. It gives you the chance to change how your GP sends your prescription to the place you choose to get your medicines or appliances from.

What does this mean for you?

If you collect your repeat prescriptions from the practice you will not have to visit us to pick up your paper prescription. Instead, we will send it electronically to the place you choose, saving you time. You will have more choice about where to get your medicines from because they can be collected from a pharmacy near to where you live, work or shop. You may not have to wait as long at the pharmacy as there will be time for your repeat prescriptions to be ready before you arrive. Is this service right for you?

Yes, if you have a stable condition and you:

• don’t want to go to your GP practice every time to collect your repeat prescription.

• collect your medicines from the same place most of the time or use a prescription collection service now.

It may not be if you:

• don’t get prescriptions very often.

• pick up your medicines from different places.

 How can you use EPS?

You need to choose a place for us to electronically send your prescription to. This is called nomination. You can choose:

• a pharmacy.

• a dispensing appliance contractor (if you use one).

 Please contact us on 01782 743121 if you would like to set this up.

Please note that there are some restrictions on what can be sent electronically.