Order Your Prescriptions

For medication requests/ queries, please use the form at the bottom of the page

Dispensary Opening Hours

Monday to Friday – only

08:30 to 13:00 – Open

13:00 to 14:00 – Closed

14:00 to 1800 – Open

Closed weekends and bank holidays 

Order Your Prescriptions 

The NHS App is the quickest way to order repeat medication. The App displays the medication you are currently on and gives you access to your medical records too.

Click here for more information on the NHS App.

You can also use Patient Access to order repeat medication.

Please Note: you now need a mobile phone as this requires “2 factor authorisation” i.e. send you a code to allow you to login.

If you have not yet registered to order your prescription online, or would prefer not to, you can also make a request in any of the following ways:

• Complete the form below (at bottom of page)
• Email our admin team at schc.admin@nhs.net – please include your name, DOB, medication required and which pharmacy you would like your prescription to be sent to. (Dispensing patients can collect from the health centre).
• Put a written request into the box in our foyer.
• Ask your preferred pharmacy to request medication on your behalf.

Regardless of the method, please allow 3 days (excluding weekends and Bank Holidays) for your repeat prescription request to be processed. 

We cannot accept repeat prescription requests over the telephone.

Please do not request your prescription if your prescription currently has more than 2 weeks remaining. Your request will be rejected. This follows national guidance to allow supply chains to restock and to ensure everyone has adequate supplies of their medication.

Please click this link to read the practice’s 28 day prescribing protocol: 28 day prescribing .

Private Prescriptions

A prescription is a legal document, and private prescriptions are issued by any doctor not working in an NHS role i.e.  in the private sector.  Any prescriber takes personal responsibility for the use of that medication and for its monitoring. The prescriber must be confident that they have all the relevant information available, to balance potential benefits against any associated risks.

Where a private doctor has written a private prescription, a pharmacy will be able to dispense the medication.  It will need to stay as a private prescription (with the patient paying any associated fees and costs for this item).

There is no obligation to convert privately issued prescriptions to NHS prescriptions. Therefore the GPs at Sonning Common Health Centre, under the terms of the NHS constitution, cannot change such prescriptions to an NHS prescription.

If you are going to need to take the same item regularly, the private doctor may write to the surgery, to request taking over the prescribing in the longer term, ie. put it on your repeat prescription.  NHS guidelines currently recommend we review the request within 2 weeks of receiving it, and makes clear it is not the surgeries responsibility to chase any letters.

Assuming the request has clear and detailed information, is clinically justified, and treatment plans include dosage recommendations, we are usually happy to take over prescribing the medication.  We would then add it to your prescription and send an NHS prescription to either you nominated pharmacy or if appropriate, the practice dispensary.

Our GPs and other NHS prescribers adhere to strict guidelines, formularies, licensing information and protocols applicable to NHS prescriptions. An NHS prescription can only be provided if the medication would usually be provided on the NHS. Some items cannot be prescribed in primary care (i.e. by a GP) and this will be passed back to the relevant hospital consultant).

Dispensing

If we dispense for you, then your medication can be collected from our dispensary or from reception.

Our dispensing patients are patients who live more than 1.6 km (1 mile) from a chemist.

If you require medication urgently outside surgery hours please speak to a pharmacist at one of the pharmacies in our area. Please click here to find a local pharmacy: Find a pharmacy.

Medication Reviews

It is good practice to review your regular medication at least once a year. If you are on more than one or two different medication, or you are having any problems with them, we will not be able to do this during a consultation for another issue.

• Please book a specific appointment for your review ( The next review date is printed on the repeat prescription form you get with your medication)
• Many medications need a blood test before the review, to make sure it is working, and are not causing side effects.
  • If you normally need a blood test, please book it with enough time for us to get the results before your review.
• Our practice clinical pharmacists run specific medication review clinics, please either book online, or  call to book your appointment.

Please note, depending on what specific medication you use, we may not feel it is safe to give you further prescriptions, once your medication review or blood tests are too overdue.

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