PRESCRIPTIONS

Repeat prescriptions
We now accept repeat prescription requests online.
To use this service you will need to ask at Reception where an account will be set up for you. Once you have set up a password you will be able to order repeat prescriptions online.

To order your prescription online please click on the button:

Patients on long-term tablets or medicines agreed by their Doctor may obtain repeat prescriptions on a regular basis without seeing the Doctor each time. Sometimes, however, you may be asked to make an appointment so that your medication can be reviewed.

New patients on regular treatment will be asked to make an appointment with the Doctor soon after registering to discuss their medication.

If your Doctor gives you a repeat prescription, you will also receive a printed counterfoil. Please keep this until you require a further supply of medicine. Then, either leave the counterfoil in the special repeat prescription box at the side of the reception desk, post it to us or order online. Please allow at least 2 working days for your prescription to be processed.

When requiring a routine six-monthly repeat prescription for the oral contraceptive pill, you are requested to make an appointment with the Practice Nurse at least one month before you finish your last pack. For any other problems, please make an appointment to see the Doctor.

When your prescription is ready, you can collect it from the Surgery or, alternatively, we can post it to you - but we do ask that you provide us with a stamped addressed envelope for this. If you are genuinely housebound, the local chemists are happy, if you make prior arrangements with them, to collect prescriptions from the Surgery and deliver your medication free to your home. Could you please also notify us by writing this on the counterfoil.

WE DO NOT TAKE REPEAT ORDERS FOR MEDICATION OVER THE TELEPHONE

New Midnight Dispensing Pharmacy
This can be found at Boots chemist at the Carlton Centre on Outer Circle Road. They are open Mon-Sat until midnight and Sun until 4.30 pm.

Sickness Certificates
You are responsible for self-certification for the first 7 days of any illness (including Sundays) and Forms SC1 should be provided by your employer. Self-employed or unemployed patients should complete form SC2, which is available at local Post Offices. For other certificates, our Doctors are legally obliged to see the patient before they sign one of these, and you will have to make an appointment if you wish to obtain a certificate. For extension certificates, please ensure that you request an appointment in good time, before the existing one runs out.