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The chemist had none for three weeks

Started 11 August 2025 · 12 replies · 118 hearts · read 2.3k times

TamsinRedruth, UK · 11 August 2025
11 months ago

A question rather than an update: The chemist had none for three weeks

Regional question, because I have read a great deal of advice that turns out to be true in one country only.

I have read the guides and they are good, and they are necessarily general, and my question is entirely about local specifics.

I would like to know how long things actually took for people in my system, because the published times bear no relation to my experience so far.

Three weeks is the honest figure, taken from the two-line diary I keep rather than from memory, and memory had it lower.

No rush. Everything here takes three weeks anyway.

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CarlMiddlesbrough, UK
#1

Something I got right was writing to the practice manager rather than the GP when the administrative side went wrong. Much more effective.

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Ollie OPeterhead, UK
#2

The supply situation in my area has been steady for eighteen months after a difficult period, and my pharmacy tells me straight when something is short.

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#3

Facilitator note: reading a thread like this can stir something up of its own. Our support resources page sets out the kinds of service worth knowing about, whether or not you need one today.

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BeaDublin, IE
#4

My review is annual and the bloods are done at the practice, and the whole arrangement takes about ninety minutes of my year.

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OsgarKillarney, IE
#5

The HSE and NHS pathways are not the same and I have watched people in this circle get quite confused reading each other's experience.

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HuwWrexham, UK
#6

Reading Bea, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

I moved between areas and had to start most of the process again, which nobody warned me about and which cost me four months.

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GavinDundee, UK
#7

Osgar — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

My practice has a nurse-led clinic that handles all of this and it is far more thorough than any GP appointment I have had.

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IvorLlanelli, UK
#8

Something worth knowing: my prescription charges worked out differently once I looked into the annual arrangement properly.

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LulaBournemouth, UK
#9

That is a kinder way of putting it than I have managed about myself.

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MinnieDoncaster, UK
#10

What Ivor described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

My local service was completely different from what somebody thirty miles away described, and both of us were right about our own areas.

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AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK
#11

I want to acknowledge how isolating it is to be the only person doing this for eighty miles. Several members here are in exactly that position.

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BertieHarrogate, UK
#12

What helped was finding out exactly which service holds the pathway locally, because the answer was not the one I had assumed.

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