Order a Prescription
Repeat Prescriptions
Repeat prescriptions are for patients with long term medical conditions who receive regular treatment.
Once a year, around your birthday month, you will need a medication review, where we will review together whether the medications are still right for you.
Repeat medications are usually authorised for 1 year, which means that you should be able to order your medication monthly (if required) without any delay.
It is really helpful to us and quicker for you if you can order your medications online, about a week before you need them. This avoids over-ordering and wasted medications.
Online Repeat Prescription Ordering
You can order a prescription online via the NHS App or PATIENT ACCESS
Our reception team can help with organising online access for you.
Other Methods of Ordering
If you are unable to use online prescription ordering you can order in the following ways
- By hand – tick the items you need on the right-hand side of your previous prescription and post them in our prescription box in the surgery foyer.
- By post – tick the items you need on the right-hand side of your previous prescription and post it to The Revel Surgery, Barr Lane, Brinklow, Rugby, Warwickshire CV23 0LU
- By Telephone - Please call 01788 834830 if possible after 10 am
What We Expect From You
- Please give 5 working days notice of your request.
- It is your responsibility to check your stock of medication and ensure you do not run out and need to request a repeat prescription at the last minute.
- Please ensure you are attending your medication reviews regularly, especially if you are taking multiple repeat medications.
- Do not stockpile drugs at home, please return them to a local pharmacy that can dispose of them
Annual Review
At least once a year, usually in your birthday month, we will invite you for an appointment to review your medications and reauthorise them. This often involves having blood tests, blood pressure and weight checks, plus others depending on your health needs.
You will then be contacted by a practice nurse, a practice pharmacist or a doctor to review your health conditions and your medication to check that your treatments are up to date.
There may be a delay in you receiving your prescriptions if there is a delay in this process, so please be prepared, around your birthday month, to see or speak to us for your annual review.
Remembering Your Tablets
If you are having problems remembering to take your regular medications, you can buy daily or weekly pill boxes which you or someone you trust can fill in advance.
If this is not possible, you can ask a pharmacy to do this for you, but this process is quite costly to the NHS so is reserved for those people who have no one else to help them with this.
NHS Prescription Costs
Hospital Requests For Medication
Please note these are normally non-urgent and can take several working days to process, depending on when we receive the information.
If you have a hospital prescription you should exchange this at the hospital pharmacy, as they are not accepted in community pharmacies.
Medication We Can't Prescribe
Paracetamol and other over the counter medicines
The cost to the NHS of prescribing medications that can be purchased inexpensively over the counter is enormous. For that reason, we no longer prescribe paracetamol, cold remedies, muscle rubs, vitamin D, and hayfever medication.
Gluten-Free Products
We also no longer routinely prescribe Gluten-Free Foods for adults now that these are universally available in shops.
Blacklisted Products
Also, doctors are not allowed to prescribe blacklisted drugs to our patients on the NHS. This includes products such as shampoos, mouth wash, toothpaste, oral drops, eye drops, multivitamins, socks, certain creams for skin, and beauty lotion.
Many items are blacklisted and are not available on prescription. The majority of these items are available to buy over the counter
Mounjaro / Ozempic
We are aware that there is a huge amount of media coverage about injectable weight loss drugs (Mounjaro and Ozempic) and the fact that GP’s are now able to prescribe these for obesity. Currently the ICB, who commissions local services, have stated that these medications are NOT to be initiated by primary care/GP’s. A recommissioned obesity service to provide these medications is anticipated by September 2025. It is worth noting that in the first year only those in the highest priority cohort will be considered (BMI>40 and at least 4 obesity related conditions). Please be prepared that if you request this medication, we will not be able to help at the current time. We will be monitoring the situation closely and will provide updates as they arrive.
Non-repeat items (Acute Prescriptions)
Non-repeat prescriptions, known as ‘acute’ prescriptions are medicines that have been issued by the Doctor but not added to your repeat prescription records. This is normally a new medication issued for a trial period and may require a review with your Doctor before the medication is added onto your repeat prescription records. Some medications are recorded as acute as they require to be closely monitored by your Doctor. Examples include very strong pain medication, Anti-depressants and drugs of potential abuse.
Items no longer available on prescription
NHS routinely monitors costs of medication and some may not continue to be available on prescription from your GP. NHS instructs all GP practices to consider costs when prescribing medications. So, you may notice substitutions: Examples include
- Multiple brands of Calcium and Vitamin D chewable tabs substituted to Calci-D tabs.
- Aveeno cream substituted with Zeroveen cream or Aproderm cream
- Using emollient creams to wash instead of Bath and shower emollients
- Branded medication substituted with generic equivalent medication
- Very high-value medication is substituted with cheaper alternatives as they are available.
