Important Note For Everybody On Drugs.

[baratron]

No, not those sort of drugs. Prescription drugs!

As it's Christmas next week and we have two bank holidays, plus several days of reduced service, you should count up your meds and order anything you'll need now. Most doctors' surgeries take at least 24 hours to process repeat prescriptions, some take 48 hours, and there's no guarantee once you have the prescription that the pharmacy will have your meds in stock. (This applies particularly if you take something very common, which they might run out of, or something unusual, which they simply may not keep.)

I'm not sure how this applies to people outside the UK, but it's probably still worth counting up meds & checking you have enough, in case you're travelling away from home or anything like that.

Comments

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

Er thanks for the reminder. I need to get a repeat prescription. I think I better ring up my pharmacy to ask them to get one from my doctor now...

[thekumquat.livejournal.com]

Having had to make use of them over the last 3 Christmasses, I can recommend the St George's Walk-in clinic as the most useful place to go (or other walk-in clinic at a hospital near you).

Thanks to them and the Westbury Chemist on Streatham High Road (open until midnight, 365 days/year), I was on antibiotics and feeling better by the time my GP's out-of-hours system got some chap who spoke negligible English to phone me four hours later.

But yes, must count the happy pills again...

[barakta]

*nods* enthustiastically! Running out of meds sucks