N.H.S - Hospitals normally commence treatment and issue the prescription. If for reasons of their pharmacy being closed you have not been able to have your prescription dispensed within the hospital we are (in the majority of cases) happy to dispense your prescription here. Please though note that this is in addition to our normal workload. We will try to process promptly but may require up to one working day prior to dispensing.

If the hospital is writing to us with a drug change/ recommendation then the surgery will NOT issue this prior to receiving written confirmation. If the change to medication is urgent then the hospital will issue themselves.

Private - Private consultations do produce private prescriptions - these are non N.H.S and therefore may incur significant cost (that the insurer probably won't cover).

Generally the surgery is happy to take the consultants prescription as a recommendation and issue a N.H.S prescription, so comments above for the N.H.S hold ( Please remember that the surgery is NOT private). If you are feel unable to wait till we are able to convert this, then we are happy to either immediately dispense the item privately or for you to take to a local chemist and for them to dispense privately.