Hi
Has anyone else received leaflets in the post from pharmacy2u or chemist4you?
Before Christmas we were innundated with these offering to do repeat prescriptions for you and post them to your address.
Now my latest prescription that I collected has a note attached asking everyone to order 10 days before the meds are needed.
Any thoughts?
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Hi there!
It's really windy here! 
Well I was being chased by local pharmacies for a while and eventually did place my prescription with one on a repeat basis
However, my GP surgery has one of the partners on the local commissioning group whatever their official title is.
Just before Christmas patients on automatic repeats had a letter saying that the automatic repeats were being stopped via the pharmacies and we had to order directly from the GP again.
This was apparently due to the fact that patients were getting repeat prescriptions for all sorts of things when they did not really need a repeat. Therefore it would save a lot of money if the GP vetted each prescription as re presentedto them by the patient.
Is this what you mean Random? Perhaps GPs are trying to save money near you?
Incidentally, I went and got my repeat from the GP only to find that when I got home someone at the GP's had stapled another patients prescription to mine and this lady, from looking at her meds, had chronic mental health difficulties.
Great patient confidentiality eh?, I rang the surgery and was asked to shred it and not take it round to the patients house......or return it to the surgery..
Great hey...
Hi Nan
It was nothing to do with the GP practice just junk mail arriving with the post.
It made me think though and wonder what guarantees , if any, there would be for the quality of the medication.
I think the attached note to my prescription was probably a response to many people's meds being disrupted over the holidays.
The staff member who pointed it out to me said that it didn't apply to me as I always order in plenty of time.
I hope the lady who's prescription was attached to yours got her meds ok.
Sorry Random, i got the wrong end of the stick there, hope you are ok as can be x
I think maybe you mean these internet pharmacies that seem to be everywhere now. Our local pharmacy asks us not to sign up with these people. They say that they aren't particularly reliable, not as trained as people in the shops and that if we all sign with them our local chemists will close and there will be no one to ask about medical problems.
That's the one internet pharmacies!
It only took me a week to make the connection because the information arrived in leaflet form.
I've used them once or twice when not able to get a doctor's appointment and when I know what the issue is (UTI for instance) but haven't had any problems with them bombarding me with emails. Or maybe they did for a while and then I unsubscribed, I can't remember. Generally I make a point of using the local pharmacy - as noted by someone else below they are under funding pressures (just like the rest of the NHS, like us, it's all creaking....) so I try to support them because pharmacists are great at answering queries. And you don't have to make an appointment in 3 weeks time to get them to talk to you!
HI. I have used Pharmacy2u a couple of times now with no problems. I find them very convenient as I work full-time and struggle to get to a pharmacy to pick up prescriptions.
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