What should you know about Stanground Surgery repeat prescriptions?

A repeat prescription covers medicines that a clinician has already agreed you should continue. The practice may need to check your medication list, monitoring results, allergies, and whether a review is due before authorising a request. The pharmacy then prepares the medicine using the authorised prescription. A repeat request is different from asking for a new medicine, changing a dose, or replacing a lost supply; those situations may require a GP consultation. The practice’s website, reception team, or electronic service can explain which request route applies. Processes can change, so use the current instructions provided by Stanground Surgery.

Check which medicines you need and request only those due, using the exact names and doses shown on your medication list. Submit the request early enough for clinical review and pharmacy processing, especially before travel or a weekend. Check the approved pharmacy destination and confirm how you will be notified. Do not share medicines, alter doses, or stop treatment because a request is delayed. If the list is wrong, a medicine causes a new problem, or you need an urgent replacement, contact the practice and explain the specific issue rather than sending duplicate requests.

Contact the practice promptly if you may run out of an essential medicine, a prescription has not reached the pharmacy, or the pharmacy says the item cannot be supplied. Seek urgent help for severe breathing difficulty, facial swelling, collapse, or other signs of a serious reaction. If stopping a medicine could be dangerous, ask a pharmacist or clinician what to do while the request is resolved. A repeat prescription does not replace review when symptoms have changed or treatment is no longer working.

Ask when your next medication review is due, which monitoring checks are needed, how to report side effects, what to do if a dose is missed, and which route Stanground Surgery wants you to use for repeat requests. A GP consultation may be appropriate when you need a treatment change.