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"Repeat Prescription"

About: Northfield Health Centre - Ross

Since the merger of this practice, the service has dropped dramatically and one is left with disappointment and great dissatisfaction. In March, my wife dropped a repeat prescription in the box at the surgery 5 days before her medication ran out. On the 6th day after, she went to collect it, only to be told that its not available as yet for collection as its still in the doctor's room. Absolute disappointment as she had no medication to use and was told to come back the day after. On Friday 26/04/2019, again my wife dropped her repeat prescription in the box at the surgery. Today 30/04/2019 she went to collect it only to be told that its still in the doctor's office and can you come back tomorrow!!. This is simply not good enough and the delay in providing the signed prescription on time can be a matter of life or death. It would appear now that repeat prescriptions will need to be submitted almost 2 weeks prior in order for it to be available on time for collection. Prior to the merger, this Surgery was GOOD! Now it would appear that no one cares at all. Trying to log on OnLine to request the repeat prescription is a non starter as the website is not even working - prior to the merger, this worked pretty well, not its DEAD!. I popped into the surgery recently to ask why I can't log in to the site to request my own repeat prescription and was told I have to fill out another form which the reception staff gave me. Have I not gone to the surgery I would have never known about these changes. My family and I have been with this surgery for more than 20 years and the situation here is simply not good enough. This is not acceptable and I can only foresee chaos, resentment and disappointment in the future. Can someone in AUTHORITY rectify this issue as soon as possible please.

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Response from Northfield Health Centre - Ross 4 years ago
Northfield Health Centre - Ross
Submitted on 22/05/2019 at 11:50
Published on nhs.uk at 13:06


Firstly, the practice would like to apologise for any disruption and inconvenience these issues have caused you and any of our patients. Any organisational change will be subject to teething problems and will require a period of settling down.

However, we are acutely aware that the standard of our service, in relation to responsiveness and access has not been where it would usually be over the last couple of months. We have put in place a number of measures to address the issues that have arisen and believe that things are now settling down.

In relation to the specific issues you have raised. The practice had to have a period of time to merge the two clinical systems and during this period the practice encountered data problems which effected the usual repeat medication systems within the practice. This has now been rectified and we are back to our normal 48hr notice policy.

Whenever there is a merger of practices, their clinical system requires patients to re-register for on line services.

This is the system supplier issue and the practice is frustrated that there is not a more streamlined approach to this. We are currently contacting patients regarding the process to re-register for on line services.

Once again, please accept our apologies and thank you for bearing with us during this period.

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