Prescriptions delivered to your door

Does anyone use one of the deliver to your door prescription services, like well.co.uk, or pharmacy2u.co.uk etc.

If so how does it work, is it OK, any problems?

Thanks

[Paulbounce]

I've used pharmacy2u a few times. My personal experience was they were fine - their reviews online are also OK.

I still pefer using my local pharmacy for a personal touch. Most pharmacy's also offer a free home delivery service if you are unable to collect your med's in person.

Paul

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[Finvola]

I’m like Paul, preferring the personal touch and probable help in an emergency. Our pharmacy delivers our drugs once a week which is great.

I did once consider Boots online but, without online prescriptions, it was too much of a faffle.

[Angie06]

I've used Pharmacy 2U but their package didnt fit through my letter box, hence it was taken to the Post office (1mile) car park 70p to be collected by myself so now I have it delivered by my own local pharmacy at our surgery and they will call back the next day if not in.

[Hidden in reply to Angie06]

If you sign a form to say no dogs or children in the house, they will put through letterbox if small enough.

[Angie06 in reply to Hidden]

Yes but they used large cardboard box that didn't fit. Only had 2 small packs of tablets so a padded envelope would have sufficed.

[Hidden in reply to Angie06]

I have given mine permission to deliver to a next-door neighbour.

[Hidden]

Forgot to say that my pharmacy do not do deliveries.

How do you get your prescription to, say, pharmacy2u? Presumably you get your doctor to do this?

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[Hidden]

No worries, the penny has just dropped.

What you apparently do is register with, for example, pharmacy2u, then IF your surgery has electronic prescription capability, then they arrange to take the prescription from your GP and then they'll sort it thereafter.

Only trouble is, our surgery, as always, is way behind the times and doesn't do electronic prescriptions. So I'm changing to a surgery that does as we're half way between two and have the option.

For anyone else interested, the service with pharmacy2u is detailed here on HealthUnlocked at healthunlocked.com/resource...

Thank you

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[LindaDaisy]

If you elect to use pharmacy2u as your normal supplier, then your local pharmacy can’t help you with any prescription related issues. You can’t beat face to face when there is a problem and they can talk to the surgery and doctor to get things sorted. Pharmacy2u can have just one pharmacist on duty supervising lots of dispensers actually making up the prescriptions.

[Hidden in reply to LindaDaisy]

At the moment, face to face is the last thing we want at the moment. People may be going in thinking they have a cold but might have COVID, you never know, we'd rather stay at home.

[seasider18]

Much easier for you local pharmacy to deliver.

[Hidden in reply to seasider18]

They don't deliver I'm afraid.

[seasider18]

I take it that you are not in the UK

[Hidden in reply to seasider18]

Yes I’m in UK

[seasider18 in reply to Hidden]

All of our local ones with several branches deliver. I see several delivering to our block of flats. GP sends prescription electronically to the pharmacy and we usually get it the same day. There is no charge for it. Sometimes if there is something we want to buy we phone them to order it and pay the driver

kamsons.co.uk/services-trea...

[Hidden in reply to seasider18]

Unfortunately, our surgery does not do electronic prescriptions, and the chemist shop they use do not do deliveries. So I am changing doctor’s surgery to one that does electronic prescriptions and then take it from there, either with their local chemist or an online provider.

Thank for your help, I never even imagined you could have drugs to your door.

[seasider18]

Our surgery is rather Dickensian and have actually reduced their online services but repeat prescriptions and deliveries have been around for many years.

Sadly nowadays their are also illegal drug deliveries to the door.