Well, if your prescription is to be repeated, there will be a repeat slip attached. No need to shout about getting a spare.
Talk to your pharmacist; s/he will now the score.
Find out what the timetable is for moving paper round the place. The internet has revolutionised most businesses, but is totally dismissed along with telephones and indeed fax and post by most practices. Most surgeries are, technologically speaking, back in the days of whisky and a hacksaw.
Most Surgeries only despatch scripts once a day. And they only accept repeat slips once a day. And then local pharmacies consolidate the delivery and receipt of scripts and slips, so if you're like me, where the pharmacy I want to collect from has to send and receive stuff from the consolidating pharmacy that has the vans, if I miss a run somewhere, call to collection can be a week. And the total distance is less than 800 yards.
In a word, (or two) get real. You can't walk in and out with drugs in ten minutes. It takes days of planning, and you need a couple of week's supply tucked up your sleeve for the sort of **** up you speak of. Leave the aforementioned slip with the pharmacy, ring them about a week ahead of requirement, and hope that leaves enough slack to cope.
I'm still not sure who are my friends in this battle, but I am pretty convinced that the pharmacies aren't the crims. Jury's still out on GPs. (But the management consultant says they're unbelievably cr*p at the basics).
Talk to your pharmacist; s/he will now the score.
Find out what the timetable is for moving paper round the place. The internet has revolutionised most businesses, but is totally dismissed along with telephones and indeed fax and post by most practices. Most surgeries are, technologically speaking, back in the days of whisky and a hacksaw.
Most Surgeries only despatch scripts once a day. And they only accept repeat slips once a day. And then local pharmacies consolidate the delivery and receipt of scripts and slips, so if you're like me, where the pharmacy I want to collect from has to send and receive stuff from the consolidating pharmacy that has the vans, if I miss a run somewhere, call to collection can be a week. And the total distance is less than 800 yards.
In a word, (or two) get real. You can't walk in and out with drugs in ten minutes. It takes days of planning, and you need a couple of week's supply tucked up your sleeve for the sort of **** up you speak of. Leave the aforementioned slip with the pharmacy, ring them about a week ahead of requirement, and hope that leaves enough slack to cope.
I'm still not sure who are my friends in this battle, but I am pretty convinced that the pharmacies aren't the crims. Jury's still out on GPs. (But the management consultant says they're unbelievably cr*p at the basics).
