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DISPENSING
You may collect your medication from the Practice dispensary. For those without transport, we have an arrangement with several village premises for medicine to be delivered from the surgery for collection. The dispensary at Chieveley is open from 8:30 to 6:30 each weekday. The Compton dispensary is open from 8.30 a.m. to 12 noon each weekday. If you anticipate any problems in collecting prescriptions, please discuss with a Dispenser. Repeat Prescriptions
If you require continuous medication, the doctor may
authorise the dispenser to provide medicine in monthly batches. Each batch
will be accompanied by a computer slip giving the name of the drug, and the
number of times you may order the medicine before seeing the doctor again.
Use this slip to order your next batch, giving us two working days’
notice to process the prescription. For safety reasons, we regret we cannot take
telephone requests for repeat prescriptions, but you may fax them to us on
01635 247261. In accordance with
government guidelines, we do not issue more than one month’s supply at any
one time, except in special circumstances which need to be agreed between you
and your own GP.
Private
Prescriptions
If
you have seen a consultant privately, they will sometimes have issued a
private prescription. Please
understand that whilst your GP may be willing to change this for an NHS one,
he/she is under no obligation and may feel professionally unable to do so.
Pharmacy
The Downland Practice is unusual in running a
pharmacy in addition to our dispensary. Our
fully qualified Pharmacist who is able to offer advice on treatments and many
health problems and conditions runs the pharmacy.
It is open from 9.00am –1.00pm and 2.00pm – 6.00pm.
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