Patients can order prescriptions online after signing up for online services.
Repeat Prescriptions
If you require a repeat prescription please return the right hand side of your most recent prescription with the items you require clearly marked. If you have lost this please fill in one of the slips provided in the entrance the main reception.
Alternatively your prescription can be requested by post.
Medication Reviews
If you have not required medication for some time the doctor may require you to make an appointment before prescribing the medication. Also after a number of repeat prescriptions you will be asked to book a medication review (telephone appointment), which would be either with a prescribing pharmacist, GP or advanced Nurse Practitioner.
Repeat Prescribing
It is possible, where medication has not been changed for sometime and if both doctor and pharmacist agree between medication reviews, that repeat prescriptions can be automatically delivered to the pharmacy. You would then only have to call in and pick up your medication from the pharmacy itself. This would mean you would not have to contact the surgery to ask for the repeat prescription to be prepared.
Please allow two full working days for prescriptions to be processed and ready for collection and remember to take weekends and bank holidays into account.
Repeat Prescription Requests
Please allow 48 hours, excluding weekends and Bank Holidays, for your request to be processed. Any problems please telephone the surgery.
Please note: It is the responsibility of the patient to inform their chosen pharmacy that there is a prescription to be collected from us.
Prescriptions Charges and Exemptions
Extensive exemption and remission arrangements protect those likely to have difficulty in paying charges (NHS prescription and dental charges, optical and hospital travel costs).
The NHS prescription charge is a flat-rate amount which successive Governments have thought it reasonable to charge for those who can afford to pay for their medicines. Prescription prepayment certificates (PPCs) offer real savings for people who need extensive medication.
NHS charges
- Prescription (per item): £9.00
- 12-month prepayment certificate (PPC): £104.00
- 3-month PPC: £29.10
If you will have to pay for four or more prescription items in three months, or more than 15 items in 12 months, you may find it cheaper to buy a PPC.
There is further information about prescription exemptions and fees on the NHS website
LOCAL PHARMACY
Now Open!
Repeat Medication from surgery to you in just one visit!
The Grange Group Practice are now offering to all its patients an exciting new concept in prescription requesting and delivery; the GRANGE PHARMACY
Patients will be able to manage their repeat medicines in a more effective, hassle free manner, and will be able to have them delivered to their home address, thus removing the need to visit a pharmacy.
For information in regard to this service please telephone 01484 480380
Variations of this service to patients are also available from other local pharmacies, including in Fartown, Siddique's ( 01484 514392), and S T Shaws ( 01484 429628) or alternatively visit www.nhs.uk for other local pharmacies.
Patients are encouraged to exercise choice in deciding which pharmacy they prefer, and The Grange Group Practice recognises and acknowledges this.