Why Should I Use Electronic Prescription Service?

Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) is an incredibly amazing service provided by the National Health Service (NHS). The service permits GPs to send prescriptions electronically from their computer to a nominated pharmacy.

With this service, you do not require a paper script of your prescription. As the prescription is sent by your GP online, you do not need to visit him or her to collect the prescription in person.

EPS is especially beneficial if you have a chronic condition that required a repeat prescription. Chronic conditions may range from arthritis, diabetes and hypertension to mental illnesses. Around 15 million people in England are known to have longstanding illnesses. If you are one of them, the EPS is the right service of choice to you.

Why should I use it?

For a patient on regular medication, changing from the traditional paper prescription process to the new Electronic Prescription Service will bring following benefits:

• You can save more time
• You can save more money
• You can spend less or no time visiting your GP

Using EPS means you do not require visiting your GP when you need a repeat prescription. In addition, by nominating an online chemist such as Pharmacy Outlet, you will be getting your medicines delivered to your preferred UK address at free of cost.

EPS is advised to patients who have stable medical condition who can:

• collect their medication from the same pharmacy
• already use a repeat prescription service
• doesn’t want to, or have no time to regularly visit your GP for prescriptions

However, the service is not suitable to you if you do not get your prescription from a same place.

You can get started by choosing the place you wish to collect your receive your medications, which can be a local or online pharmacy such as Pharmacy Outlet. This is called nomination.

Nominating a pharmacy simple means selecting the pharmacy you would like to have your online prescription sent to. The nominated pharmacy receives your prescription from GP and prepare your medication before sending it to your preferred UK address.

If you choose Pharmacy Outlet as your nominated pharmacy, it will prepare and dispense your medication and sent it to your when you need it. You can also contact its professional pharmacy team for any queries related to Electronic Prescription Service by making a call on 03333 222 400.