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Hospital Asking For Meds From Home

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MikeyBikey

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Type 1
If you go into hospital for s short pre-plsnned short stay you are often asked to bring a supply of medication from home. However,for.an emergency admission like mine (I was actually taken from the community podiatrist as jr was concerned about my foot and general wellbeing,) you cannot do so. Yesterday for the fifth time in as it many months I was asked to get someone to bring meds from my home despite me telling them that it would involve round trips in excess of 100 miles. By coincidence one of them is actually collecting some day clothes for me today so can pick up some of what the hospital wants but only ,two weeks supply as I cannot be left with none on discharge! When the original hospital asked for insulin I told them of a small local independent pharmacy can source it surely a large hospital pharmacy could

I suspect the bran counters are behind this nonsense wanting to put meds on a GP's cost centre rather than theirs.
 
When I broke my femur last year my family packed all my meds, including insulin, pens and needles, with my other stuff and it travelled with me and hubby in the ambulance. Within 2 days all the heart meds had been changed for something else, and my box of needles had disappeared. I assumed it had either got lost between A&E and the ward or someone had mistakenly taken it home. Hubby brought another box and that too went missing. Turned out only “safety” needles were allowed on the ward, but with limited mobility I actually found these really awkward. During my stay I experienced 5 different wards and when I was transferred to a community hospital for rehab, I completely forgot to ask for my needles back.

Leaving the rehab facility 4 weeks later, I was sent home with 2 months’ supply of meds, including 2 boxes each of Novorapid and Levemir disposable pens. In vain did I protest that I did not use disposables and had plenty of cartridges at home - I had to have my full prescription and their pharmacy did not issue cartridges.

I shudder to think about wastage like this being replicated all over the NHS.

PS. I was able to donate the pens to the IDDT, so all was not in vain
 
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