Urgent Prescription Requests

 

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  • Requests for prescriptions outside the normal prescription protocol impacts significantly on both doctors, and administration staff time as well as increasing the risk of a medication prescribing error.
  • Unless a medication is clinically urgent as per the medication list on this page, requests will be processed routinely over 2 working days.
  • As a surgery, we require a minimum of 2 working days to process a patients request for medication routinely.
 

Please respect our staff

  • Our reception and administrative staff are to always follow this policy and they are not authorised to make any exceptions.
  • This policy is put in place to protect our patients and our staff, and we will not tolerate any abuse to or of our staff as they are following policy
 

If you forget to obtain a prescription for repeat medication and run out of important medicines, you may be able to get help from your Pharmacy.

  • Under the Urgent Provision of Repeat Medication Service, Pharmacists may be able to supply you with a further cycle of a previously repeated medicine, without having to get a prescription from your GP. 
  • If you have run out of important medication, telephone your usual Pharmacy to check that they offer this service; if they don’t, they may either direct you to another Pharmacy who does provide it, or ask you to phone 111 where you can request details of a local Pharmacy that provides the service.

You must then take with you to the relevant Pharmacy, proof of both your identification and of your medication (for example, your repeat prescription list or the empty box which should have your details printed on it). Controlled drugs and antibiotics are not provided through this service, you will need to ring 111 for these.

FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT OUT OF HOURS MEDICINES

 

Hospital Prescriptions

  • When you are seen at the hospital and are given a hospital prescription, you should not leave the hospital without attending the hospital pharmacy to collect the medication.
  • A hospital prescription is not valid in community pharmacies.
  • Should you wish to have the prescription fulfilled by us instead, this will be processed routinely over 2 working days. Urgently needed medication will be provided by the treating hospital.
  • Some hospital medications are not licensed to be prescribed in general practice. 
 

Holiday Medication

  • When preparing for your holiday, please remember to process a request for your routine medication allowing the normal 2 working days for processing.
  • We can only provide a maximum of 3 months medication, and we may request a patient to provide documents to support this request.
  • We are unable to provide emergency prescriptions for holiday medication.
 

Repeat Medication

How how to order a repeat prescription

Please Note: Patients can also now request an emergency prescription via 111

 

The following medication may be issued on an urgent same-day basis

  • You could endure harm within 2 working days by missing doses of these medications.
  • These medications should be requested urgently if you have run out:
Group Product
Reliever inhalers and Nebuliser solutions
  • Ipratropium
  • Salbutamol
  • Terbutaline
All anticoagulants
  • Apixaban
  • Edoxaba
  • Dabigatrin
  • Rivaroxaban
  • Warfarin
Anti-epileptic medications (for epilepsy management only)
  • Carbamazepine
  • Gabapentin
  • Lamotrigine
  • Levetiracetam
  • Pheobarbtone
  • Phenytoin
  • Topiramate
  • Valproate
Anti-psychotic medications
  • Aripiprazole
  • Haloperidol 
Medications for Schizophrenia/Bipolar/Psychosis 
  • Lithium
  • Olanzapine
  • Quetiapine
  • Risperidone 
Parkinson's medications
  • Co-beneldopa
  • Co-careldopa
  • Levodopa
Long term steroids (For patients who take steroids every day)
  • Dexamethasone
  • Fludrocortisone
  • Prednisolone 
Nitrates and ant-angina medications
  • Glyceryl trinitrate spray
  • Isosorbide mononitrate
  • Isosorbide dinitrate
  • Ivabradine
  • Nicorandil
  • Verapamil
  • Ranolazine
Anti-arthymythic drugs (For cardiac arrhythmias only - not for treatment of high blood pressure)
  • Amiodarone
  • Atenolol
  • Digoxin
  • Diltiazem
  • Flecanide
  • Propranolol (not for anxiety)
  • Sotolol
  • Verapamil
Palliative care medications (end of life)
  • Anticipatory drugs
  • Cyclizine
  • Diamorphine
  • Glycopyronium
  • Levomepromazine
  • Midazolam
  • Water for injection 
Heart failure medications
  • Bisoprolol
  • Furosemide
  • Bumetadine
Diabetic medications (for type 1 diabetics only)
  • All insulin
  • Metformin
  • Needles
  • Test strips
  • Sharps bins
Anaphylaxis injections
  • Epi pens
Specialised baby milks