We have an organised telephone service for repeat prescriptions. Repeat Prescriptions can be re-ordered by telephoning the practice between 3pm and 12 midnight. Please allow 48hrs before collecting your medication from your named Pharmacy.
Ordering Repeat Prescription Online
The Practice is pleased to provide patients with access to its Clinical System via a Secure Web Interface.
You can request repeat medication on line. To do this you need to register with the practice and obtain a password to enable you to access this service. Once your registration account is created you will need to come into the surgery with your passport or driving licence so that your account can be activated you will be able to use the system to book and cancel appointments and request repeat medication as required. Please complete an application form available from reception.
If you already have your password then you can access Patient Access.
Information for Patients
Prescribing following assessment or treatment in the private healthcare sector
What is a private prescription?
Private prescriptions are prescriptions that are written by a private Doctor recommending medications for you. A private prescription is not written on an official NHS prescription and so is not paid for by the NHS. The cost of a private prescription is met wholly by the patient and is dictated by the cost of the medicine plus the pharmacies charge for supplying it.
Can I receive privately recommended medications on the NHS?
A prescription is a legal document for which the doctor (or non-medical prescriber), who has issued and signed it, is responsible for. Therefore, changing private prescriptions to NHS prescriptions is at the sole discretion of the NHS practitioner and subject to HSCNI protocols and the NI Medicines Formulary.
It is the position of this surgery that our prescribers may provide some medicines on the NHS on advice from a Clinician in the private sector. However, there are a number of circumstances when our prescribers will decline the request or offer to prescribe an alternative medicine.
He or she may decline to prescribe if:
- A letter explaining the full rationale for the treatment, doses and duration has not been provided by the consultant in the private sector.
- He or she feels the medicine is not clinically necessary.
- The medication is unlicensed.
- The medication is prescribed outside of its licensed indication.
- The medication is not one he or she would normally prescribe.
- The medication needs special monitoring and he or she feels they do not have the expertise or facilities to do this.
- The use of the medication conflicts with NICE guidance or locally agreed protocols.
- An equivalent but equally effective medicine is prescribed locally under prescribing advice from the HSCB. In this situation you may be offered the equivalent medicine.
In any of these circumstances you will retain the option of purchasing the recommended medicine via a prescription from your doctor in the private sector.
If there are any issues with the suggested treatment by a private Doctor you may be asked to contact the private healthcare facility, where you were seen, to get the private Doctor to provide the practice with further information before an NHS prescription is issued.
Please read this guide from the HSC that gives more information about private prescriptions given by private practitioners [EXTERNAL PDF LINK]