If the doctor agrees, you may obtain repeat prescriptions by sending your repeat slip to the surgery or by a personal visit.

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You can also order prescriptions via the prescription email prescriptions.w93054@wales.nhs.uk

For your safety, we do not accept telephone requests for repeat prescriptions.

Due to the increasing numbers of patients requesting their prescription on an urgent basis, St David’s Clinic has implemented an Urgent Prescription Policy to ensure the efficient management of medication requests whilst minimising the risk of errors.

Only medications deemed urgent by our Pharmacist or Duty GP will be processed same day

Definition of Urgency:

• Urgent requests are for emergency medication needed within 24 hours to prevent the patient from becoming serious ill.
  
  
• Requests for late-ordered medication are not considered urgent. It is the patient’s responsibility to ensure that repeat prescription requests are ordered in time.
• If you forget to obtain a repeat medication, contact your pharmacy for assistance under the Urgent Provision of Repeat Medication Service who may be able to supply you with a further cycle of previously repeated medicine.
  
  
• If you have run out of important medication, telephone your usual pharmacy to check that they offer this service; if they don’t, they may either direct you to another Pharmacy who does provide it or ask you to phone 111 where you can request details of a local Pharmacy that provided the service.

Please enclose a stamped, addressed envelope for posted prescriptions.

If you have difficulty in getting to a chemist to collect your drugs, it may be possible to arrange for them to be delivered.

Please allow 48 hours, excluding weekends and Bank Holidays, for your request to be processed if collecting directly from the surgery.

Please allow 5 working days, excluding weekends and Bank Holidays, for your requested to be processed if collecting from your preferred pharmacy.

If you submit your request to our Branch Sites : Gaer Clinic or St Brides Medical Centre please allow an additional 24 hours to the turnaround times.

Prescription queries over the telephone are between 12:00-16:00 daily. 

A side effect to your medicine?

Report it using Yellow Card

If you think the medicine you are taking may have caused a side effect, you can report it using Yellow Card.

There are three ways to make a Yellow Card report:

• Use the Online Yellow Card Form
• Ask at reception for Yellow Card form
• Call the Yellow Card hotline on 0808 100 3352

Always contact your doctor if you are worried about any symptoms.

We are aware there has been misleading information on Social Media over the weekend regarding asking your doctor/practice pharmacist for rescue packs.

WE ARE NOT SUPPLYING “JUST IN CASE” COURSES OF STEROID AND ANTIBIOTICS (known as rescue packs) TO ANYONE WHO ISN’T ALREADY HAVING THAT AS PART OF THEIR USUAL TREATMENT.

Please do the following:

• Use your inhalers as you have been advised by your healthcare professional to manage your condition as best as possible.
• Visit asthma.co.uk and search for how to use your inhalers, watch the video even if you are sure you know how to use your inhaler and practice preferred technique.
• Contact us BY TELEPHONE if you develop a worsening of your current asthma or COPD symptoms. Phone 111 if these are severe or we are not open. (Usually this would be phone 999 but during this pandemic 999 would only be if someone STOPPED breathing).
• Look after yourself, isolate if you have been advised to. Distance yourself from others whenever possible, try to reach out for help with groceries and collecting prescriptions.