Surely a health & safety issue? Medication Procedures

[skybluepink]

What concerns me if you have a dosset box & delivery that if there is an extra or a change in medication it can almost be a week before it arrives unless you pick it up which is not always able to be done .

There is the rigamarole at GPs yet even when GP sends at once because it goes to p/t assistant doing dosset boxes it can depend when you get which could be a week .With antibiotics, a week later isn't it .Yet tried to tell most of main pharmacies , GPs who just ignore the issue even the pharmacists. Surely a health & safety issue ?Something isn't quite right here?

[jeffcobb Ambassador]

Hmm. As you describe it, the "meds by mail" route can indeed be a problem for all the reasons you described (had to look up what a "dosset box" was though). We have used such a service in the past but limited the meds to ones that A. don't change from month to month or are one-time-only things like steroids and B. definitely nothing that we can afford to be a day late getting, let alone a week or more. In that use-case, they work well and save us money. If however they are your sole method of visiting the pharmacist, thats definitely a weak point in the system.

Since we are both disabled we have noticed more and more of our needs are being fulfilled via delivery service for things like groceries and most common items can be bought and delivered from Amazon for about the same price as the item on the shelf if we were able to make it to the store. Sadly there are still gaps where we are forced to go out no matter how ill; there could be a whole business built around that, even if the government didn't help.