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SueR

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Why is it not possible for a chemist to prescribe the medications that your GP gives without making a complete and utter mess of it all ? I am so very tired of repeat prescriptions being messed up, tired of having to change chemists and tired of them constantly blaming the GP, when I know it's them who have messed up.

In the past I have had medication trebled when one chemist didn't read the prescription correctly and they tried to blame the GP. Today I am running out of insulin thanks to my latest chemist not giving me enough. The usual excuse of it's your GP's fault didn't wash because I had a diabetic check last week and made a point of asking for extra insulin. The nurse was surprised when I explained that I had only been given half the amount prescribed.

Am I the only one struggling here or are other's having the same problem....
 
To be honest Sue whenever I get a mix up over a prescription 9 out of 10 times it is the fault of the surgery rather than the chemists and I have a very good doctor, but errors do get made when notes get mislaid or the correct information is not where it should be when the scripts are signed off.

No my chemist has always prescribed exactly what has been sent to them all the errors in my case come from the surgery end :cry:
 
I gave up on the auto repeat script service and now all my scripts are collected and read before being taken to a pharmacy. This way I can be sure that the scripts are correct and any error found upon collection must be down to the dispenser.
 
Hi. Does your surgery run prescriptions online? Do ask if not sure. I always order mine online from my prescrption list on the surgerys computer. This way there are no mistakes as the local pharmacy is given a computer printed prescription by the surgery. In my experience, pharmacies very rarely make prescribing mistakes as the pharmacist can get struck off
 
Hi sueR

A few years ago i put a repeat prescription in for some insulin (HUMALOG) and when i went to pick it up 2 days later i got home to find it was the wrong insulin the chemist had given me HUMALOG 25/75 or something like that. I rang the chemist straight away and told them they should read the prescription properly that could have been fatal if an older diabetic with sight problems had got hold of it. Its not like years ago when the G.P's wrote out there own prescriptions and you couldn't hardly understand what was written, its all printed off the computer now so there is no excuse, it sounds as if these chemists like to pass the buck.

tracey167
 
In my experience it is always the chemist that seems incapable of following simple instructions, the GP issues the repeats and the chemist picks them up and dispenses..

2 years ago a chemist trebled the dose of a medication I was taking, then had the audacity to say that the GP had changed it. On checking the prescription it was the chemist who had made the mistake and me who was left feeling very ill. Sorry but the pharmacy seems to get away with it, twice Boots have given me the wrong medication. The first time I noticed it and pulled them up plus complained to their head office. The second time I missed it, because my meds are pre-packed and the GP picked up on it and questioned them.

Today I realised I was running low on insulin and chased up the chemist - I changed from Boots 2 years ago - who instantly blamed the GP. I checked with the nurse last week, so know it was the chemist's fault. The annoying thing is that lives are being put at risk when they give out the wrong medication and they just don't seem to care.
 
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