Repeat Prescriptions

 

Please follow the guidelines and choose the right option for you.

Please allow us 48 hours (two working days), to process your prescription request.

Due to the high volume of requests, we do not reply and confirm receipt of received requests.

Your medication will have been sent to your nominated pharmacy within 48 hours unless we have contacted you.

We do not accept repeat prescription requests over the phone.

Ordering a Repeat Prescription

When you order a prescription online, you can have it sent electronically to a pharmacy of your choice. This is called a nomination.

Learn how to nominate a pharmacy

The NHS App

Order repeat prescriptions via the NHS App or NHS website, and have them sent to a pharmacy of your choice.

Learn more about the NHS App

Use Online Services

The easiest way to order your prescription is by using our online services.

Learn more about online services

Online Form

If you're not registered with our online services, you can use our online form

Order your repeat prescription via our online Repeat Prescription form. No account required.

Use our online form

Your Local Pharmacy

Pharmacy Ordering / Collection Service

Pharmacies offer a prescription collection service from our Practice

Your pharmacy can also order your medication on your behalf. This saves you time and unnecessary visits to the Practice. Please contact the Pharmacy of your choice for more information if you wish to use this service.

About pharmacists

As qualified healthcare professionals, pharmacists can offer advice on minor illnesses such as:

  • coughs
  • colds
  • sore throats
  • tummy trouble
  • aches and pains

They can also advise on medicine that you can buy without a prescription.

Find a pharmacy

In Person

Retain the right-hand side of your prescription, tick the medications you require and post in the red prescriptions box in the practice foyer.

By Post

Write a note or fill in a slip from reception with your name, date of birth and the medications you require. Post this in the red prescriptions box in the foyer or hand to the receptionist.

If you're unable to collect your prescription from the surgery, please include a stamped, addressed envelope for return by post. Please allow at least seven days if requesting your medication by post.

Acute Medication Requests

Non-repeat prescriptions are known as ‘Acute’ prescriptions.

This is usually a medication that the doctor would like to monitor closely before adding it to your repeat prescription. For example, new blood pressure medication or antidepressants.

These medications will not appear online to order, so will need to be requested online or filling in a slip at reception. 

Medication Queries

Please get in touch with the surgery to raise a query about your medication.

Contact us

Prescriptions Charges and Exemptions

Extensive exemption and remission arrangements protect those likely to have difficulty in paying charges (NHS prescription and dental charges, optical and hospital travel costs).

The NHS prescription charge is a flat-rate amount which successive Governments have thought it reasonable to charge for those who can afford to pay for their medicines. Prescription prepayment certificates (PPCs) offer real savings for people who need extensive medication.

When going abroad you can take your NHS medications with you.

Please visit the NHS website for the latest Prescription Charges

These charges apply in England only. In Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales prescriptions are free of charge.

Further Information

Find a Pharmacy

Use the NHS Pharmacy finder to locate pharmacies near you.

Find a pharmacy

Electronic Prescription Service

The Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) sends electronic prescriptions from GP surgeries to pharmacies. Eventually EPS will remove the need for most paper prescriptions.

Learn more about the Electronic Prescription Service

Electronic Repeat Dispensing

Learn about the benefits of Electronic Repeat Dispensing and how to set it up.

Learn more about Electronic Repeat Dispensing