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Why remove something from prescription??

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MummyRose2009

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I am completely confused this morning.

Phoned the doctor for my repeat prescription for my freestyle optium blood test strips so i can get the ?25 i paid last night refunded, and was told it was no longer on my prescription. As the receptionist put it "it was a one of prescription".

I asked her why it was only a one off prescription when i'm not exactly going to get over diabetes after a week. I'm hoping the doctor will allow me a repeat prescription when he phones it just all seems daft.

I'm determined to get a prescription cause i am not paying ?25 for a prescription when we just haven't got the money, i have a medical exemption card and we are unemployed at the moment.
 
I am completely confused this morning.

Phoned the doctor for my repeat prescription for my freestyle optium blood test strips so i can get the ?25 i paid last night refunded, and was told it was no longer on my prescription. As the receptionist put it "it was a one of prescription".

I asked her why it was only a one off prescription when i'm not exactly going to get over diabetes after a week. I'm hoping the doctor will allow me a repeat prescription when he phones it just all seems daft.

I'm determined to get a prescription cause i am not paying ?25 for a prescription when we just haven't got the money, i have a medical exemption card and we are unemployed at the moment.


Hiya,
I doubt you will get the ?25 back if it was not a prescription that you pd for but over the counter.
If it was a prescription then you would have been charged what ever the cost of a prescription is.
But no your blood strips should be on prescription so someone has made ab's up somewhere.
Hope all is sorted for you.
 
You should get as many strips as you need and not have to pay for them. I get 300 strips per prescription although others may get less. The pharmacy should refund your money and give you one box less on the prescription when you get it. Be sure to stress to the doctor that you are newly-diagnosed and on insulin - it is dangerous for you not to test! Hope it all gets sorted quickly and without fuss 🙂
 
Agree with Sue here. Hope you can get prescriptions for future blood glucose test strips sorted out. It's still worth getting a medical exemption form (if you're taking any medication for diabetes, not counting strips) as hopefully you will get employment sometime, but wil lstill be entitled to free prescriptions due to diabetes, not income.
 
Agree with Sue here. Hope you can get prescriptions for future blood glucose test strips sorted out. It's still worth getting a medical exemption form (if you're taking any medication for diabetes, not counting strips) as hopefully you will get employment sometime, but wil lstill be entitled to free prescriptions due to diabetes, not income.

MR has an exemption card and is Type 1 so is definitely on medication for her diabetes 🙂
 
Well my nurse applied for an exemption certificate when i was thought to be type 2 but heard nothing since. luckily i have got a prescription waiting for me and the pharmacist and doc said i'll def get a refund. Got a review appointment tomorrow with my doctor who admitted me to hospital, wondering what she will say being diagnosed a type 1 when she was adamant that i was a type 2 lol
 
Unfortunately, I suspect that having applied for a medical exemption card may not be the same as having a medical exemption card in your hand. I'd like to be proved wrong, but trying to be realistic. However, using the same pharmacy can be a good way to manage "blips" in supplies, so I really hope your pharmacist and doc are proved right.
 
i do already have a medical exemption with us being unemployed at the moment i just didn't have it on hand because i wasn't expecting to run out of strips so quick.
 
OK, exemption from paying due to being unemployed is income based, not medical exemption, which is dependent on certain diagnoses, diabetes treated with any form of medication being one. But if pharmacist has previously seen your exemption card of any type, then they should accept that and give you "credit". Still, do get a medical exemption card - as I mentioned before, that will ensure you continue to get free prescriptions once you get a job / higher income.

Personally I always keep my card in my wallet, in case I ever find myself away from home unexpectedly, particularly in case I need a prescription away from my local pharmacy. But that relies on being very careful with wallet.
 
+1 on keeping your exemption certificate with you. Different pharmacies will sometimes ask (or forget to ask - they are always supposed to ask to see it) and you can't always get what you need at your 'usual'. If you keep your card with you you can just pop into any pharmacy.
 
Hopefully you get your prescription sorted and you get what you need fast!

I use a little family run chemist near me for my prescriptions, after the first 2 times I went in they stopped asking to see my card.

I do keep it in my wallet - so it's always with me. But sometimes my wife collects for me! But they just hand it over.
 
I think it just frustrated me as well because last night i really needed the strips with me feeling funny and if i hadn't got any money i would have had to trail into hospital again instead of just curing the problem and getting the strips so i could control things myself. I ave a 20 min appointment with my doctor tomorrow so i am going to ask about the exemption and repeat presription.
 
The fact that you have insulin on your prescription should be sufficient to confirm that you are exempt from charges. I have occasionally been asked if I have a card, but since I don't carry it with me I'm never able to show it, but it hasn't been a problem 🙂
 
When K was first Dx they didnt put Lancets on her scrip - afraid I was a bit sarcastic to receptionist at GP - asked her how suggested my daughter used the testing strips that were on the script. 🙄

Unfortunately I think your Doc's surgery is and will be confused about your 're-diagnosis' as Type 1 :(

Hope you can get it sorted soon - how is your arm today?
 
oh how do i apply for medical expemption? i am on a tax credit card at the moment... which i have realised is out of date and seeing as i am type one i should really sort it out shouldnt i oooopps
 
Medusa, if you ask the receptionist they should give you a form to fill in there and then. They then get the GP to sign it and voila, your card arrives in the post. In all the years I've had the card (6ish?), I've only been asked to show it once.
 
When I lived in England and used Asda pharmacy, they never bothered until a new assistant started and wanted to see it every time. I didn't carry it with me and had more than one argument about not being cured any time soon, so not likely to become un-exempted.

The pharmacist recognised me and stepped in.

But they apparently need to have the number in their system so they're not asked to pass the charge on.

Rob
 
oh how do i apply for medical expemption? i am on a tax credit card at the moment... which i have realised is out of date and seeing as i am type one i should really sort it out shouldnt i oooopps

Here's the official line on applying for medical exemption certificates for people with diabetes treated with medication and living in England - http://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/HealthCosts/2095.aspx Basically, ask for form FP92A at your GP practice and send it off.

More info at http://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/HealthCosts/1126.aspx
 
Usually experienced hands know that if they see things like Insulin or Metformin on a prescription they don't need to ask to see a card, it's like being a pregnant mummy. Unfortunately you are supposed to ask for legal purposes. In my case I it wave it as soon as i go in, coz it's got my name on it and i don't have to spell it out for them (it's Torode, before Masterchef it used to cause no end of trouble" No, it's T....O...R "and so on).
It is possible that the person who takes the prescription off you is a receptionist or Assistant, and they have no formal training about medicines. I remember the days when i didn't know what Metformin was. They might not know that Insulin, Metformin or Liraglutide = diabetes = exemption.
Besides, you don't have to apply for exemption, excessively community minded folk with big salaries might be happy to pay prescription charges.

Rachel
 
I've been lucky in not having to deal with these problems of certificates etc. I waited until I retired before allowing the diabetes fairy to bestow her gift on me, so I was already on free prescription for everything.:D

John.
 
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