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Ever since i was diagnosed with type 2, i have obtained and disposed of my sharps bin at the local diabetes centre.
Today, i have driven accross town in the rush hour to get a new bin to be told they can take my old bin but can't give me a new one. I now have to go to my GP (the receptionists seem to think sharps bin = drug addict) and get one on prescription.
They say they could not possibly be expected to let everone know the system has changed, so i assume that several hundred essentially disabled people will be going on fools errands over the next few months. It is funny, but i wouldn't have thought there was a problem with people stock piling un-needed yellow plastic boxes.
To get a £2 box, it needs to go though the repeat prescription process, the pharmacist needs to have it delivered, unloaded, stored and dispensed and then the prescription pricing process needs to be gone through. A good proportion of these prescriptions will be free, so the benefit of getting the tax will be avoided.
Cost effective? me thinks not.
I now have to spend the next 3 weeks storing used needles and lancets in old tablet bottles, as it is taking that long for me to see the Quack - not on my repeat prescription is it.
I am glad there is only one 7 year old in the house
Scott
Ever since i was diagnosed with type 2, i have obtained and disposed of my sharps bin at the local diabetes centre.
Today, i have driven accross town in the rush hour to get a new bin to be told they can take my old bin but can't give me a new one. I now have to go to my GP (the receptionists seem to think sharps bin = drug addict) and get one on prescription.
They say they could not possibly be expected to let everone know the system has changed, so i assume that several hundred essentially disabled people will be going on fools errands over the next few months. It is funny, but i wouldn't have thought there was a problem with people stock piling un-needed yellow plastic boxes.
To get a £2 box, it needs to go though the repeat prescription process, the pharmacist needs to have it delivered, unloaded, stored and dispensed and then the prescription pricing process needs to be gone through. A good proportion of these prescriptions will be free, so the benefit of getting the tax will be avoided.
Cost effective? me thinks not.
I now have to spend the next 3 weeks storing used needles and lancets in old tablet bottles, as it is taking that long for me to see the Quack - not on my repeat prescription is it.
I am glad there is only one 7 year old in the house
Scott