Repeat Dispensing

A new way to get your regular prescription from Concord Pharmacy

If you or someone you care for uses the same medicines regularly, you may be able to benefit from using the NHS Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD) service.

This means you won’t have to re-order or collect your repeat prescriptions from your GP practice every time you need more medicine.

Talk to your GP or the person who prescribes your medicines and ask them if you can use Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD). Your prescriber will usually be your doctor or practice nurse.

If your prescriber thinks that you could use eRD for your regular medicines, they will ask you for permission to share information about your treatment with your pharmacist here at Concord Pharmacy. This will help us to give your prescriber feedback about your treatment and provide you with a more useful advice.

Your GP or prescriber will then authorise a number of eRD prescriptions, this will be based on your circumstances and clinical need. These eRD prescriptions will then be supplied by Concord Pharmacy at regular intervals.

Collect your first eRD prescription from Concord Pharmacy.

 

Next time you need more medicines just contact us.

Before dispensing the next issue of your prescription, we will ask you the following questions:

· Have you seen any health professionals (GP, nurse or hospital doctor), since your last repeat prescription was supplied?

· Have you recently started taking any new medicines – either on prescription or that you have bought over the counter?

· Have you been having any problems with your medication or experiencing any side effects?

· Are there any items on your repeat prescription that you don’t need this month?

If you don’t need all of the medicines on your prescription, let our pharmacy staff know, so that we only supply the medicines you need. This will help to reduce waste and save the NHS money.

Some of our patients have already asked Concord Pharmacy to manage their repeat dispensing needs on their behalf using our manual system. We plan to gradually move these patients onto the eRD system and if you use the manual system we will let you know as we do so but we expect the transition to be seamless.