Repeat Prescription
Repeat Prescription is a deal between a Doctor and its patient which allows the Doctor to permit a prescription he can issue at regular intervals with no need of consulting Doctor on every issue.
Repeat prescription is not for everyone i.e. those who are ill or actually needs attention by doctor urgently. They should dial 111 for an ambulance or call hospital and fix an appointment with a doctor. The online repeat prescription service is for patients that are routinely prescribed by their regular doctor, for certain stable conditions.
Repeat Prescription accounts for nearly 50-60% of all prescriptions given by Doctors. Approximately half of a practices people will be given repeat prescriptions. If Repeat prescription is implemented properly then they have many plus points for both the Doctors and patients, such as convenience & ease of access, reducing workload, etc. Normally, if you need the prescription you have to call your Doctor and request for repeat prescription listing all the medicines you require or fill in a repeat prescription request form, with all the information filled up properly by you. The Doctor will ask you to wait for 48 hours so they can check and give the prescription and then you can collect the prescription from the hospital, and buy it from the chemist of your choice. It is sometimes quite possible that chemist of your choice doesn’t have the supply of medicines which you require immediately. Then you have to look for other pharmacy for your medicines. Repeat prescription is a perfect solution for this kind of problems. As if they not only give you the prescription they also deliver the medicines at your door if you ask them. Your Repeat Prescription medicines are convenient and safe till you have them under the proper guidance of your doctor. Because if there is no progress in your health according to doctor in a prescribed time you should consult doctor and ask for a change in prescription.
Any Doctor can sign a prescription provided that they are pleased with the request and the way it has been prescribed. First of all, the Doctor and the patient should agree on the medicines which patient need to have on regular basis and what patient requires occasionally. For example, Diabetic patients have a daily medication. So when these patients log into online repeat prescription they get the repeat prescription in the interval which they require under the guidance of Doctor. And when the medicine supply is about to end they can repeat the procedure same way by logging in online Repeat Prescription.
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