Prescriptions

How to request a repeat prescription

  • Online - You can order your repeat prescriptions via the NHS APP Log in - NHS App Online (service.nhs.uk)
  • If you do not have access to the internet you can order your repeat prescriptions in person - Tick the boxes on your green repeat medication slip, OR, write a note stating what medications you would like and drop it off or post it to the surgery. Please only order medications that you need.

        Please note - we do not take prescription requests via the telephone.

 

Order your repeat prescription on the NHS App

If you’re a patient at our practice, you can use the NHS App to access a range of NHS services on your smartphone or tablet.

It doesn’t replace existing services. 

You can still contact us in the usual ways. But, once you have verified your identity in the app, you will have easy, 24/7 access to a growing range of health services and information.

Nominate a pharmacy and order repeat prescriptions 

For a step by step guide Click Here

App: Log in - NHS App Online (service.nhs.uk)

NHS APP

Proxy Access

A GP surgery can give someone proxy access so they can help another person manage their GP health and care. 

A proxy may be able to act for the person they support, by:

  • ordering repeat prescriptions
  • booking appointments

If you help someone else with prescriptions, booking appointments or managing their health and care, getting proxy access could make it easier and more convenient.

Please download our proxy form here. Once you have filled out the form, please bring to our reception front desk along with photo ID and proof of residence. Alternatively you can collect a proxy access form from our front desk if you do not have access to a printer. 

More information can be found on the NHS website. 

Collecting your prescription

All prescriptions will be sent to your nominated pharmacy.

You can change your nominated pharmacy through the NHS App or if you do not have access to the internet you can give us a call. 

Why 48 hours?

The 48 hour (or 2 working days) processing time is to enable us to receive your prescription, have your medication details checked, pass the prescription to your GP for checking and signing, update your medical records to avoid confusion and error and to get the prescription back to reception for collection.

Please ensure that you have sufficient medication to cover this period.

Only in emergency circumstances will exceptions be made. This is then at the discretion of the doctors.

NHS

Sedative Medication

Park Medical Centre does not accept requests for the prescription of sedative medication for use in investigative procedures and travel. In this approach we our adhering to our duty of care to provide safe, consistent, and appropriate care for our patients.

Safe and effective analgesia and sedation should be delivered by an appropriately trained and credentialed team with good access to anaesthetics, pre-procedure assessment, sedation plan and checklist, with appropriate monitoring and availability of resuscitation equipment and reversal agents.

Benzodiazepines such as Diazepam, at any dose, have the potential to cause over sedation. Conversely, such medications can also have an idiosyncratic response in patients, and even very small doses can cause increased agitation in some subsets of patients.

Sedated patients need to be regularly monitored. There have been cases of respiratory arrest in scanners and on aeroplanes.

We have therefore agreed as a practice not to prescribe benzodiazepines in these circumstances.

If your consultant at the hospital has requested the scan, you need to discuss the options with them.

Prescription Fees

Help with NHS costs

In England, around 90% of prescription items are dispensed free. This includes exemptions from charging for those on low incomes, such as:

  • those on specific benefits or through the NHS Low Income Scheme
  • those who are age exempt
  • those with certain medical conditions
  • More information is available at NHS Choices