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YOUR HOLIDAY ISN’T A REASON TO MAKE AN URGENT DRUG REQUEST

IT FEELS like there’s always a new strategy or idea being floated by Ministers as a solution to the NHS waiting list crisis. Last week we were told we might be able to jump the neverending queues by ‘shopping around’ – using the NHS app to choose a hospital with the shortest wait for that vital op.

But there’s another issue I doubt politicians will touch, so I will. Patients – not all, but some – are an overlooked part of the problem. Take repeat prescriptions. In most practices you can order them in person, online or from the pharmacist.

It’s done electronically and couldn’t be simpler. So why am I being asked, regularly, for urgent prescriptions because people are travelling on holiday the next day?

Of course, doctors will do it for them. But urgent requests mean others then have to wait. It’s thoughtless behaviour. If you’re organised enough to book a holiday, surely you can be as organised with your medicine.

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