DISPENSARY NEWSLETTER
OPENING TIMES Monday to Friday
TELEPHONE HOURS 9.30am – 10.30am 2.30 – 4.00pm
Please
remember that the telephone service is intended for elderly and housebound
patients only.
Many of the
local surgeries have discontinued their phone service. Please help us retain ours by not using it
unnecessarily.
HOW TO ORDER
Please use
your repeat request form that is attached to your prescription or you can write
your request down on a piece of paper, making sure you give us as many details
as possible. You can leave the request
in the box provided or use the post-box outside the surgery. Alternatively you can Fax your request to us on 0844-815-1060, or you can Post your
request to us. We are now offering the
service of E-mail prescriptions. Please
allow 48 hours before you collect your prescriptions, and remember we are
closed at weekends. Prescriptions put in the post-box at the weekend will not
be ready for collection until Tuesday afternoon.
PRESCRIPTION CHARGES
As from 1st
April 2008 Prescription will cost £7.10 per item.
Pre-payment
certificates will cost £27.85
for 3 months or £102.50 for 12 months.
The
prescription charge is a contribution to the NHS. It is NOT a payment
to the practice. It bears no
relationship to the cost of the medicine.
DELIVERY SERVICE
We now offer
a delivery service to those patients over 60 years and who find it difficult to
get to the surgery. Deliveries will be
available on Thursday mornings to Lidlington, Millbrook and surrounding areas
and on Friday mornings to Silsoe, Clophill, Maulden and surrounding
villages. If you would like to take
advantage of this service please put deliver at the bottom of your repeat
request. Deliveries will not be
available Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday.