I just launch an app, which orders the repeat prescription from the doctor. The approval takes a day, it’s sent directly to the pharmacist next door, and I pick it up when I fancy.
It takes me a minute, the doctor about as long, and there’s no waiting.
I don’t even have to do that. I tick the boxes for the next scrip on the paper form at Boots while the assistant is getting my bag of pills out of the rack and my insulin out of the fridge. I might well be able to do something similar to your app thing from my PC though, in which case the additional work sounds like it would be negligible, just as long as I actually remember to do it a day or three before I need to.
VB
Presumably yours then needs the pharmacist to enter your tick onto his computer, which then sends the order to your doctor, who approves it and sends it back to the pharmacist?
Presumably. She works, I don’t, suits me.
Thinking about it I guess they have a heap of these forms waiting and when they have a quiet few minutes they process a handful of them. All that matters is that they get round to it before the 56 days (less a few for the doctor) are up. They can do, I dunno, a thousand in two months much more efficiently than a thousand individual patients can each do one every two months.
VB
Just another 3 to go then
VB
Here’s an idea I hadn’t thought of …
Jam tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after that …
I wonder if she is stupid enough not to know that we have some form there or just that she is crass enough not to care?
Fiona Bruce to host Gammon Time on the BBC. I’m definitely maintaining my policy of not watching it now.
Oh FFS, of all the talent they have and they decided Fiona Bruce.
I know, a job for David Dickinson if ever there was one…
All the FEMALE talent even … i’d have gone with Mathis or Hussein myself, and if it had to be a bloke then Andrew Neil. Horrible shit of a man, but knows how to hold people to account.
If only john Inman was still alive
If you want to read my rather long (ongoing) exchange with a Brexiter comfortable with the idea of No Deal, it’s here.
Riveting stuff
In the places I’ve worked and deployed different approaches, nothing precludes patients being managed and treated as individuals, so cases like yours wouldn’t be interfered with or stopped.
The issue is largely about GPs having more influence and control over repeat medicines and medicines reviews. They are specifically paid in the national contract to do this. What’s happened is that as pharmacies have stepped into providing various repeat services, the GPs have witting or more likely unwittingly, lost a bit of control and clinical oversight.
…and free. 
Fine piece by Ian Dunt. “…The prime minister is the political equivalent of someone trying to eat soup with a knife…”
I liked “The fact she is so unconvincing when lying does not remove the moral responsibility for having done so in the first place.”
My situation’s complicated by the fact that my diabetes has been managed for the last 35+ years by specialists in a clinic at the local hospital. So my GPs have never really had any control or clinical oversight over that. They just sign off the scrips and ask me about my blood pressure every few years.
My problem isn’t with my management and treatment. It’s just with the simple mechanics of getting me the meds, sharps, sugar testing stuff etc that I need. I currently have to do this once every 56 days. When I went to the USA in 1988, expecting to be gone at least a year, I got a prescription for 15 months worth of insulin, sharps, test strips etc before I left. So longer-term, lower-overhead prescriptions aren’t impossible.
VB