Prescription renewal

[willie5094]

My wife went to the farmacia to get her twice monthly prescription to be told no, you need to see your doctor. My question is how do you know when it is due to expire, she is now without her regular meds until phone appointment on 18th Sept.

Thanks
Willie

[Johnrgby]

Morning Willie, the right hand column gives you a finish date of the medication, but I had an instance when I tooled up two days before the finish date and was told it had expired, on checking with my Doctor, it appears that the actual date it expires is 7/8 days before that date,   I did not bother to enquire why they just did not put the actual expiration date on the form.

[willie5094]

Morning John, I remember seeing that when i did get the presciption before. I'll take a wee look, getting very forgetful John.

Cheers
Willie

[Johnrgby]

Morning John, I remember seeing that when i did get the presciption before. I'll take a wee look, getting very forgetful John.

Cheers
Willie

Tell me about it, You can go to The Medical Centre in Rosario and ask for an emergency appointment, whichever medical Centre you use they have to give you one.

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

If you have a telephone appointment with doc and they renew prescriptions, or prescribe new meds, you just go to the chemist with your health card to collect and you have no idea when it expires! But, I've found that my local chemist in La Oliva will print your prescription sheet for you if you ask. Don't know if all chemists do this. That way you can check appropriate dates!

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

Health will extend for two months the treatment plans that expire in December, January and February

The renewal is carried out immediately so patients will not have to make an appointment with their Primary Care doctor or carry out any management.

Health will extend for two months the treatment plans that expire in December, January and February. Medicines may be withdrawn directly at pharmacies by presenting the health card.

 

The Canary Islands Health Service (SCS) will extend the treatment plans that expire during this month of December and the next two months of January and February 2022, for a period of two months. The objective is not to increase the demand for medical consultations in Primary Care, preferably by telephone, when their only reason is the renewal of medication during this period of high incidence of COVID-19.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the Canary Islands Health Service has been implementing a series of measures according to the health emergency situation that will prevent patients from traveling to health centers and facilitate assistance. Given the new epidemiological situation detected by the increase in cases of COVID-19 infection, chronic treatments that are going to expire are extended in the CONTINUOUS Electronic Prescription of the SCS for a period of 2 months from their date of validity, provided that they expire this December, in January or February 2022, without the patient having to carry out any management.

This measure, which has entered into force today, aims to prevent the displacement of patients to health centers who will not have to request medical consultation for the renewal of treatment plans. In this way, users will be able to withdraw their chronic treatments in the pharmacies by presenting their individual health card.
Acute treatments and treatment plans that include visa medicines and narcotics are exempt from this measure,which will maintain their initial validity and that need to be reviewed and / or updated by the doctor for security reasons, whose consultation will preferably be carried out by telephone, leaving the face-to-face appointment at the optional discretion.