heart failure

what do I do if no follow up again my drugs just stop in 28days

[uzininemm]

Hello.

I am surprised you have not been told anything, do you have a follow up appointment with your doctor booked, as you do need to take this up with them.

I was informed by consultant that I would be on my cocktail of drugs for the rest of my life and therefore other than an annual meds review (so far) with a face to face review in Feb at the doctors my pharmacists automatically order my meds each month.

[Letsallhope1]

Hello! Another heart failure patient here

as an HF patient you should have planned follow up appointments, your meds on repeat prescription with regular review, we are not talking about getting over a cold here!

Please get back to your cardiac team, if you cannot, demand to see your GP asap and be referred back to the cardiac team as maybe a mistake has been made and you have been discharged?

Please get yourself be heard!

All the best

[ILowe in reply to Letsallhope1]

If you were in hospital, you should have a copy of your discharge letter, which your GP should also have (though in my experience paperwork often fails, so I end up dishing out photocopies). If it is outpatients the paperwork might be less. At the very least you should have a medications list. At my surgery, I just hand this in, well in time, with a personal note of explanation. If I did not have paperwork I would photocopy the boxes of the medicines, with a note of the name of the doctor + date etc who prescribed them.

The GP is responsible for repeat prescriptions, and is often responsible for followup blood tests. This then leaves a back door for contacting the GP. My surgery has someone responsible for repeat prescriptions, and I can usually contact them easily, avoiding the morning phone struggle.

[Letsallhope1 in reply to ILowe]

I didn’t write the post

Uzininemm did 😁

[ILowe in reply to Letsallhope1]

Thanks. I must have hit the wrong reply button.

[Qualipop]

When you leave hospital ongoing care is normally handed over to your GP so you must contact them. Hospital follow up could still happen but could be several months. I would phone your consultant's secretary to ask what's happening. Switchboard will put you through but meantime your first port of call is your GP.