Isca MP > Services

Isca Medical Practice: Services

Services

Prescriptions

Repeat prescriptions of items which are on your repeat list will be produced by the Reception staff on request until the number of repeats authorised and remaining declines to zero:

We will accept telephone requests for these at the Homefield building on 214151 but they take up significantly more time than dealing with a request made using the right hand side of your last prescription, or an email.

To help us please make sure you can say exactly what it is you are asking for, otherwise the telephone is more likely to be engaged when somebody else needs to talk to us. To help still more, try to use the list provided on the right hand side of prescriptions, and send this in in good time. If you send prescription requests early telling us when you will need them, we can postdate them and issue them.
If you write the name of the local chemist on it then it should be collected the following lunchtime by them, and the prescription should be put up and waiting at the Pharmacy within a few hours after that.

Requests by e-mail come directly to staff at the Homefield front desk and will be dealt with fairly promptly.

Not Repeats

Requests for a prescription of anything which is not on the list of repeats you get with each prescription receive the doctors attention, rather than being produced immediately. This means they may take more than 24 hours to produce.

Help us by providing the exact name of the preparation you are asking for, and by giving some idea of why you want it.

Automatic Repeats

Our current software makes it feasible to generate a prescription each month or week for things you should take and are taking regularly in predictable amounts. If that seems useful, talk to us.

Batches or Repeats.

We can turn out a block or paper with a prescription, and 6 monthly counterfoils which allow your pharmacist to issue your medicines for 6 months. In theory this could be for longer.

Your part in making this run smoothly is to arrange that whatever we need to do or know to assure ourselves and you that the treatment continues to be correct - blood tests, blood pressure measurement, hearing you say that the medicine is effective and you want to carry on taking it, measuring your breathing, photograping your eyes or whatever - is done in sufficient time for us to have the results before you ask for another 6 months batch.

Many Practices in other places have found the effort and confusion exceissive and don't do this, we think it could be useful to all of us, but that the system devised for running it is a lash-up.

Old and Expired Items, Errors and Omissions

Please help us to maintain accurate records of your medication by telling us if a medication is listed on the right hand side of your prescription which you no longer need or use.

The District Nursing team for the area is based at Homefield.

Physiotherapy occurs at the Homefield and the Polsloe Road buildings, and in PCT premises. You may negotiate with the physiotherapy department over where and when you are seen or treated.

Confidentiality

Your records were very securely kept by your GPs and their staff. Security now depends upon the constraints enforced by you upon your government and the PCT and other NHS structures who have control of the IT systems they depend upon.

This practice was one of nine in the country testing the British Medical Association policy on confidentiality of records and access to information about patients.

Use Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) encryption to secure messages to us, give us and identify to us your PGP public key in order for us to send secure messages to you, if you like. In practice, it is unlikely an individual message will be intercepted.

Dr Midgley's PGP public key

15-16 year olds

Consultations with your doctor are confidential.

We suggest that you should discuss any health or other problems with your parents but we would not divulge anything without your explicit consent

.

At the age of 16 you may register with any GP you choose, this need not be the same practice as either of your parents.

There are advantages to being registered with a family doctor as a family, however.

It is sensible to ensure you have received contraceptive advice before starting sex rather than after.
Emergency contraception
Emergency contraception Contact one of the doctors through the Practice in daytime any day of the week.

The emergency Pill is effective up to 72 hours after a risk, a coil is effective up to 5 days after a risk.

It is better not to take risks.
Using the NHS
If you are going away to University or college or a job away from home for longer than six months you may need to register with a local GP there. During vacations or if you are home in term-time we will be pleased to see you as a "Temporary Resident" or for "Immediately Necessary Treatment" if you need attention. We will have retained a computer record of the main parts of your history and will of course remember you.
Original 1997, current version April 2010