Below are some useful points to remember when you are thinking about your medication

  • Please let your GP or Pharmacist know if you’ve stopped taking any of your medicines
  • Check what medicines you still have at home before re-ordering
  • Discuss your medication with your GP or Pharmacist on a regular basis
  • Think carefully before ticking all the boxes on your repeat prescription forms, tick those you really need
  • If you don’t need the medicine please don’t order it! If you need the medicine in the future you can still request it.
  • If you need to go into hospital, please remember to take all your medicines with you in a clearly marked bag.
  • Please also remember that your medicines are prescribed only for you; it’s not safe to share them with anyone else.
  • Even if you never open them, once medicines have left the Pharmacy, they cannot be recycled or used by anyone else.
  • Please take your unused medicines to the Pharmacy for safe disposal. If your medicines change, return old medicines to the pharmacy for safe disposal to avoid mixing them up with your new medicines
  • NEVER dispose of your unused or unwanted medicines down the toilet
  • Don’t stockpile medication – it is a safety risk for children and others who might take them
  • Store medicines in an appropriate place out of reach of children
  • Once your medications are due for collection; please try to collect them with reasonable promptness. This avoids build-up of uncollected medicines in the Pharmacy.

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