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Planning to travel UK & Europe next Spring for a year, my question is, how do you arrange for supplies of medication prescribed by your GP? Do you just ask for a 12 month supply? Or do you need to email the requests and then get someone else to collect them and post them to you, its only tablets so that might be possibility? I dont know what happens about sending white tablets thru the post!!!
Presume if the prescription needed to be changed you find a local doctor and start afresh in the same way as a visitor who had been taken ill?
Why do the simplest problems take so much brain power?
Mike & Ann
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We came up against this problem and what we have done is we collected about a six month supply and are hoping to get the son to put our repeat prescriptions into our doctor and then we will collect them from him when we return to the area he lives in. This is all trial and error.
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Planning to travel UK & Europe next Spring for a year, my question is, how do you arrange for supplies of medication prescribed by your GP? Do you just ask for a 12 month supply? Or do you need to email the requests and then get someone else to collect them and post them to you, its only tablets so that might be possibility? I dont know what happens about sending white tablets thru the post!!!
Presume if the prescription needed to be changed you find a local doctor and start afresh in the same way as a visitor who had been taken ill?
Why do the simplest problems take so much brain power?
Mike & Ann
Hello Mike & Ann,
This topic has been aired before but I can't find it.
It seems "Officially" your GP should remove you from his list after you have been away for three months. They don't because they get paid by the numbers of patients on their list. Any way if you don't tell them they won't know.
We have never stayed away for a year, we have only managed 5 months. We are both on medication for high BP and found the tablets we take can be bought across the counter in most pharmacies in Europe. We just take the packet in and they usually do a quick check in their books and up till now we have had no problems.
I can't recall the cost but we decided it was well worth it.
I don't know how you will make out if your medication needs changing.
Don
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I shall have a word with my GP but may well register with an Italian practice none the less.
Otherwise, it would be a repeat prescription but relying on someone to collection the items and post them to me.
Some thought needed I think.
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Many thanks for the prompt replies, I also searched on this forum and the subject was discussed at some length in the summer of 2005. It appears that its simple up to 3 months away from your home GP. That might now be 6 months in the EU.
Dept of health website was no use but under NHS Direct I found that your Doc can prescribe up to 3 months needs, he can also give you a further (postdated) Prescription to take with you.
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WE will probably be back in that time so that does help, I only have to hope that he doesn't just give me a long prescription and then deregister me! Perhaps I ought to promise to bring him back a bottle!!
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I too am on prescription drugs and have used friends to collect from the GP & post on, but I don't like doing this.
In Spain the drugs I need can be bought over the counter & at a cheaper price than the prescription charges I still have to pay in the UK.
In France we tried many chemists but all refused until we got to a tourist area in the south where they sold me 30 but at twice the price of a prescription!
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The GP no longer gets a per diem. They are now tasked with severe prescription controls by the DoH as this is the most expensive part of primary care in UK.Yes 3 months is the most you can expect and if the Primary Care Trust does not agree with the long term prescription the doctor will be personally billed.Remember the doctor can ask to see you at any time for a continuing problem. The DoH is also insisting that generics are dispensed which may not be helpful to your complaint-the basic drug is the same as the trade marked product but the fillers and binders vary significantly. Posting the tablets can be a problem as the authorities do have postal regulations about drugs in the post.If you want continuig treatment an E112 has to be completed and sent to Newcastle on Tyne who will then ask your Primary care Trust to agree-if not you are on your own and subject to the rules of each country-see DoH booklet or website as to what each country will give-not a lot-we are particularly fortunate with our often maligned but basically good health service. If you live abroad for any length of time-over three months- you are supposed to return your medical card to Newcastle--nobody does though. Hospitals in particular are now searching to see if any of their UK patients may be living abroad and just returning for an operation-some have got bills! Staying with your local UK doctor is unfair and a waste of a valuable resource-some areas have closed patient lists but have absence patients.
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The GP no longer gets a per diem. They are now tasked with severe prescription controls by the DoH as this is the most expensive part of primary care in UK.Yes 3 months is the most you can expect and if the Primary Care Trust does not agree with the long term prescription the doctor will be personally billed.Remember the doctor can ask to see you at any time for a continuing problem. The DoH is also insisting that generics are dispensed which may not be helpful to your complaint-the basic drug is the same as the trade marked product but the fillers and binders vary significantly. Posting the tablets can be a problem as the authorities do have postal regulations about drugs in the post.If you want continuig treatment an E112 has to be completed and sent to Newcastle on Tyne who will then ask your Primary care Trust to agree-if not you are on your own and subject to the rules of each country-see DoH booklet or website as to what each country will give-not a lot-we are particularly fortunate with our often maligned but basically good health service. If you live abroad for any length of time-over three months- you are supposed to return your medical card to Newcastle--nobody does though. Hospitals in particular are now searching to see if any of their UK patients may be living abroad and just returning for an operation-some have got bills! Staying with your local UK doctor is unfair and a waste of a valuable resource-some areas have closed patient lists but have absence patients. 
