Welcome to our prescription information page.
Here you will find simple guidance on how to order and collect repeat prescriptions, get answers to your questions, and learn about our electronic Repeat Dispensing service. Our aim is to make managing your medicines as easy and convenient as possible.
Non-urgent advice: Ordering Repeat Prescriptions
The easiest ways to order repeat prescriptions are:
– Using your NHS account (via the NHS website or NHS App)
– Contact us online: Click Here
The NHS shows all your repeat medicines and dosages, allowing you to select the ones you need.
You can also bring the paper form to the surgery, Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 6:00 pm.
Please note: We do NOT accept repeat prescription requests by phone or email.
– Using your NHS account (via the NHS website or NHS App)
– Contact us online: Click Here
The NHS shows all your repeat medicines and dosages, allowing you to select the ones you need.
You can also bring the paper form to the surgery, Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 6:00 pm.
Please note: We do NOT accept repeat prescription requests by phone or email.
Non-urgent advice: Collecting Your Prescription
You can usually collect your prescription from your chosen pharmacy 3 to 5 working days after ordering.
You need to select a pharmacy to collect your prescription from. This is called nominating a pharmacy.
You can change your nominated pharmacy at any time:
– On the app or website where you order your repeat prescriptions
– At your GP practice
– At any pharmacy that accepts repeat prescriptions
You need to select a pharmacy to collect your prescription from. This is called nominating a pharmacy.
You can change your nominated pharmacy at any time:
– On the app or website where you order your repeat prescriptions
– At your GP practice
– At any pharmacy that accepts repeat prescriptions
Non-urgent advice: Questions About Your Prescription
If you have questions about your medicine, your local pharmacist can help. They can also advise on medicines available without a prescription.
The NHS website provides information on how your medicine works, how and when to take it, possible side effects, and answers to common questions.
If you want to speak to someone at the GP surgery about your prescription, please call us on 01753 989 800, 08:30 am to 5:00 pm, Monday to Friday.
The NHS website provides information on how your medicine works, how and when to take it, possible side effects, and answers to common questions.
If you want to speak to someone at the GP surgery about your prescription, please call us on 01753 989 800, 08:30 am to 5:00 pm, Monday to Friday.
Non-urgent advice: Medication Review
If you have a repeat prescription, we may ask you to come in for a regular review. We will contact you when it’s time for your review.
Non-urgent advice: Prescription Charges
Find out more about prescription charges on the NHS website.
Non-urgent advice: What To Do With Old Medicines
Take any unused or expired medicines to the pharmacy where you got them from. Do not throw them in your household bin or flush them down the toilet.
Non-urgent advice: About Pharmacists
Pharmacists are qualified healthcare professionals who can offer advice on minor illnesses such as:
– Coughs
– Colds
– Sore throats
– Tummy troubles
– Aches and pains
They can also advise on medicines you can buy without a prescription.
Many pharmacies are open late and at weekends. You do not need an appointment.
Most pharmacies have private consultation rooms where you can discuss your health confidentially.
– Coughs
– Colds
– Sore throats
– Tummy troubles
– Aches and pains
They can also advise on medicines you can buy without a prescription.
Many pharmacies are open late and at weekends. You do not need an appointment.
Most pharmacies have private consultation rooms where you can discuss your health confidentially.
Non-urgent advice: Repeat Dispensing Service (eRD)
GPs and pharmacies are moving suitable patients to electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD). This is for patients who get regular or repeat medicines that don’t change.
With eRD, your GP sends a series of repeat prescriptions electronically to your chosen pharmacy. You can then collect your medicines or ask for home delivery.
What eRD Means for You
eRD allows your GP to send multiple repeat prescriptions at once, so you don’t need to order each one separately. It is reliable, secure, and confidential. Your prescriptions are stored safely on the NHS database and ready for collection when you need them.
How eRD Can Benefit You
If you get regular or repeat medicines, eRD can help you:
– Save time by avoiding unnecessary trips or calls to your GP
– Order or cancel repeat prescriptions online (if your practice offers this)
– Pick up your medicines directly from your pharmacy without visiting your GP
– Spend less time waiting at the pharmacy or GP practice
– Save paper by not needing a paper prescription
How Do I Sign Up for eRD?
It’s easy to sign up for eRD — just ask your GP or pharmacist to set it up for you.
With eRD, your GP sends a series of repeat prescriptions electronically to your chosen pharmacy. You can then collect your medicines or ask for home delivery.
What eRD Means for You
eRD allows your GP to send multiple repeat prescriptions at once, so you don’t need to order each one separately. It is reliable, secure, and confidential. Your prescriptions are stored safely on the NHS database and ready for collection when you need them.
How eRD Can Benefit You
If you get regular or repeat medicines, eRD can help you:
– Save time by avoiding unnecessary trips or calls to your GP
– Order or cancel repeat prescriptions online (if your practice offers this)
– Pick up your medicines directly from your pharmacy without visiting your GP
– Spend less time waiting at the pharmacy or GP practice
– Save paper by not needing a paper prescription
How Do I Sign Up for eRD?
It’s easy to sign up for eRD — just ask your GP or pharmacist to set it up for you.
Non-urgent advice: Prescribing Sedatives for Hospital Procedures
After careful consideration, The Hall Practice does not prescribe diazepam for patients having MRI scans or other investigative procedures. This is not a decision we took lightly; we have a duty of care to provide safe, consistent, and appropriate care for our patients. We hope the reasons outlined below help to explain our main concerns.
Small doses of benzodiazepines such at 2mg diazepam are probably sub-therapeutic for most adults for any effective sedation.
Conversely anxiolytics can have an idiosyncratic response in patients, and even very small doses can cause increased agitation in some subsets of patients.
A patient may take a sedative ‘an hour’ before their assumed procedure, to then attend the hospital to find their procedure has been delayed, therefore the timing of the anxiolytic being sub optimal.
All hospital consultants, both those requesting imaging and those providing it, have access to the same prescribing abilities as GPs. If a patient needs a certain medication to enable an investigation to go ahead, they are just as well positioned to provide a prescription, either through the hospital pharmacy or a hospital FP10.
Sedated patients should be regularly monitored. The prescriber is best place to provide this monitoring in the knowledge of what has been prescribed. GPs are not in a position to monitor the patient during their procedure.
The Royal College of Radiologists‘ own guidelines on sedation for imaging makes no mention of GP involvement or provision of low dose anxiolytics and stresses the importance of experienced well-trained staff involved and the monitoring of sedated patients: www.rcr.ac.uk
Small doses of benzodiazepines such at 2mg diazepam are probably sub-therapeutic for most adults for any effective sedation.Conversely anxiolytics can have an idiosyncratic response in patients, and even very small doses can cause increased agitation in some subsets of patients.A patient may take a sedative ‘an hour’ before their assumed procedure, to then attend the hospital to find their procedure has been delayed, therefore the timing of the anxiolytic being sub optimal.All hospital consultants, both those requesting imaging and those providing it, have access to the same prescribing abilities as GPs. If a patient needs a certain medication to enable an investigation to go ahead, they are just as well positioned to provide a prescription, either through the hospital pharmacy or a hospital FP10.Sedated patients should be regularly monitored. The prescriber is best place to provide this monitoring in the knowledge of what has been prescribed. GPs are not in a position to monitor the patient during their procedure.The Royal College of Radiologists‘ own guidelines on sedation for imaging makes no mention of GP involvement or provision of low dose anxiolytics and stresses the importance of experienced well-trained staff involved and the monitoring of sedated patients: www.rcr.ac.uk