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rang boots today to see if they had received my repeat pescription to be informed they will be charging £5 a delivery or £55 annual charge.
I am housebound and in a wheelchair and boots is not even a two minute walk away. Guess i will have to time it so that a friend who does my shopping can pick it up but i really hate to ask as they do enough for me as it is.

There’s an online repeat prescription service that delivers to your home

Orrr May have seen an advert on tv

May be worth looking at

This may be worth looking at

https://www.well.co.uk/landing?gclid=CjwKCAjw8NfrBRA7EiwAfiVJpZsC6t4Wjul2TYuzwetIIvrTUfzGT_3Vd4PSfkf57RA62JTU5XVVBBoChrcQAvD_BwE

thank you for, but i have to upload a photo, don't have any recent ones and being a nerd i have no idea how to do it. Perhaps i will have to try and take a selfie, do you think they will accept a a fuzzy photo :-)

Do you have a mobile you can take a picture on that and upland it

Lloyds Pharmacy do a prescription service no charge for delivery they are on line Barbara .

thanks barabara, will be looking into lloyds

I haven’t used their delivery service but I have found our local Lloyd’s very good. I started with Boots but found them so inefficient. I never got the right medication at the right time though according to them it was always my fault. On one occasion they insisted I had ordered something when I wasn’t even in the country.

I changed to Lloyd’s for my repeat prescription and have not had a single problem with them. I collect mine but they have said they will deliver if I would like them to.

I hope you can get it sorted.

thank you

Just been into our local Boots and a "Customer Notice" at the till says they will be closing for 1 hour each day at lunch time!! :-(

That's because they can't hand over medication unless a Pharmacist is present & checks it off. That also applies to some 'over the counter' drugs. If only one is normally present, that hour is when they have their lunch!

We have a Lloyds & an Independent in our village. They've come to an agreement over Lunch-times. The Independent's pharmacist has a break 1-2 & Lloyds 1.30-2.30.
Customers can still buy other things, just not collect prescriptions or medication locked away/kept behind the counter.

OH picked up 3 prescriptions for me last Saturday, something he has done frequently over the last year or so ................ this time it was a young-ish pharmacist who asked to see his ID.

We've had to sign for prescriptions when we pick-up for the last year to show it had been picked up and hopefully the signature could be read, but the ID request was new to him.

I think it was because one of the prescriptions was Tylenol 3 (= your paracetamol with codeine) and therefore is counted as an opiate. Doctors and pharmacists are taking extreme care with all opiates as we've had such a horrendous drug overdose problem here.