Has anyone read anything good against online repeat prescription ordering services? And also, what’s the most ethical way to order scripts full stop - read that Boots longread, don’t pay for any of my eight medications if it’s relevant.
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Interested in the economics/economic ethics of medicine really - who gets what money, how to support small businesses, how it all works etc.
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Replying to @DawnHFoster
Boots fought a long but ultimately unsuccessful battle against recognising an independent pharmacists' trade union. Pharmacy2U have been fined for selling patient data previously. There are some horror stories floating around about Pharmacy2U's customer service
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Echo has now been bought by Lloyds pharmacy. Some research I did for my PhD suggested that supermarket/multiple pharmacies may be less likely to provide services for what some would consider to be vulnerable patient groupshttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/19962674/ …
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Replying to @josephbush @DawnHFoster
The mechanics of repeat prescriptions are largely the same wherever you go tbh. I think my opinion on most ethical stance would be to frequent a local independent but we all know what opinions are like!
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As background, roughly 90% of a pharmacy's income is derived from NHS services so that income stream is vitally important. They've also been hot with some quite pronounced funding cuts since 2016 x
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You legend, this is precisely the info I was after! I did wonder about Pharmacy2U because every indie pharmacy in Clapham has a handcrafted sign warning against them. Pharmacists don’t get recompensed less for patients with free scripts, do they?
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