As usual, this week I posted my prescription renewal at the beginning of the week, planning to collect towards the end. The surgery have been ‘suggesting’ for years that I enrol in the digital prescription scheme, but I have declined because of the lack of flexibility for choosing the pharmacy that a) will be handiest for me, and b) has my meds available. Because my script includes two ‘unusual’ meds, the pharmacy often has difficulty filling it. If they partially fill the script I cannot take it to an alternative pharmacy for filling. So I have thought it through fully and decided thank you, but no thank you. So I was frankly astonished today when I popped into the surgery to find that my script had been sent to a nearby supermarket pharmacy where I sometimes get them filled. Especially as no one had told me this would happen. The surgery staff explained that all scripts are now automatically sent to a pharmacy. Despite my protestations that I have never chosen this supermarket as my preferred pharmacy, it seems that my script is going to the supermarket. So I now need to specify every time I need a renewal that I want to collect it from the surgery. There is no option anymore to make collection the default.
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