Repeat Prescription Online UK: Basic Information

The Repeat Prescription Online Service, or the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS), is designed to help people get their prescriptions with great ease and comfort. The service enables a doctor to send a patient’s repeat prescription to the pharmacy via the internet. Patients can collect their medicine from the pharmacy store or request for a home delivery that is free.

One of the chief reasons behind this initiation is to reduce the waste in the NHS. Experts are concerned because millions are wasted each year due to stockpiling, over-ordering and unused medication. The EPS is much safer and allows experts to monitor over-use and under-use of medications efficiently.

NHS Prescription Cost

The NHS Prescription Charge is £8.60 for each item from 1^st April 2017. Most patients collecting the repeat prescriptions do not pay prescription charges.

If you have to pay prescription charges and need more than four prescription medicines in three months or more than 14 items in 12 months, you can save money by getting a PPC (Prescription Prepayment Certificate).

Prescription Requests

You can request a repeat prescription online UK in the following ways:

• Online (please ask your pharmacist how to sign up online)
• By post, using the repeat prescription slip
• In person, handing over the prescription slip to the pharmacy

Further Information

Most pharmacies in the UK offer the NHS Electronic Prescription Service. They will make necessary arrangements to collect your repeat prescription electronically to dispense and deliver your regular medicines.

Please allow at least two working days (excluding weekends and bank holidays) for your prescription request to be dispensed. More importantly, make sure you re-order when you still have a week’s supply left. This gives enough time for a pharmacist to collect your prescription from your doctor. Do not stockpile medications at home. Please order only those prescription items that you need.

PharmacyOutlet is one of the UK’s online pharmacies based in Surrey. It operates as a fully stocked online pharmacy that fulfils the prescription needs of people and offers free delivery for NHS prescriptions. Call 03333 222 400 to know more about the repeat prescription online service!