Prescriptions

Please follow the guidelines and choose the right option for you.

Please allow us 48 hours (two working days), to process your prescription request.

Local pharmacy can take between 3 and 5 further days to process your prescription request.

Ordering a Repeat Prescription

When you order a prescription online, you can have it sent electronically to a pharmacy of your choice. This is called a nomination.

Learn how to nominate a pharmacy

Use Online Services

The easiest way to order your prescription is by using our online services.

Learn more about online services

The NHS App

Order repeat prescriptions via the NHS App or NHS website, and have them sent to a pharmacy of your choice.

Learn more about the NHS App

Your Local Pharmacy

Pharmacy Ordering / Collection Service

Pharmacies offer a prescription collection service from our Practice

Your pharmacy can also order your medication on your behalf. This saves you time and unnecessary visits to the Practice. Please contact the Pharmacy of your choice for more information if you wish to use this service.

We support patients who have elected to use Pharmacy2U or Echo pharmacy to receive their medications through the post, but would ask that you request your prescriptions online, rather than through these companies. Their processes are not integrated into our systems.

About pharmacists

As qualified healthcare professionals, pharmacists can offer advice on minor illnesses such as:

coughs
colds
sore throats
tummy trouble
aches and pains

They can also advise on medicine that you can buy without a prescription.

Find a pharmacy

In Person

Use your prescription counterfoil and clearly mark the items required.

You can place the request in the box provided in our waiting area or through our letterbox after surgery hours.

Housebound Patients

Patients who are truly housebound or suffering from certain disabilities can request prescriptions over the telephone between 3pm and 6pm.

Telephone: 01747 824201 or 01747 834330

Medication Reviews

Patients are asked to check repeat prescription slips. It will advise them if they need a medication review and will also show any other messages from the surgery.

If you take a regular medication or are used to having an annual blood test, in your birthday month, please complete the “Medication review” template online.

If you are not able to do this, please provide your details to reception. Once a GP has reviewed your medications, they will let you know what else is required, such as blood tests or home blood pressure readings.

Complete a medication review online

If you normally have regular blood tests to support your review, please book these with a Care Navigator.

Questions About Your Prescription

If you have questions about your medicine, your local pharmacists can answer these. They can also answer questions on medicines you can buy without a prescription.

The NHS website has information on how your medicine works, how and when to take it, possible side effects and answers to your common questions.

View the NHS Medicines A to Z

If you would like to speak to someone at the GP surgery about your prescription, please contact us.

Prescriptions Charges and Exemptions

Extensive exemption and remission arrangements protect those likely to have difficulty in paying charges (NHS prescription and dental charges, optical and hospital travel costs).

The NHS prescription charge is a flat-rate amount which successive Governments have thought it reasonable to charge for those who can afford to pay for their medicines. Prescription prepayment certificates (PPCs) offer real savings for people who need extensive medication.

When going abroad you can take your NHS medications with you.

Please visit the NHS website for the latest Prescription Charges

These charges apply in England only. In Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales prescriptions are free of charge.

Further Information

Find a Pharmacy

Use the NHS Pharmacy finder to locate pharmacies near you.