Prescriptions and Reviews

 

Please follow the guidelines and choose the right option for you.

Please allow us five working days to process your prescription request. Special requests may take seven working days.

Please remember to give time for your pharmacy to dispense your medication.

We can only accept telephone requests for prescriptions from frail, elderly or housebound patients.

Ordering a Repeat Prescription

By Phone

We can only accept telephone requests for prescriptions from frail, elderly or housebound patients.

We restrict telephone requests in order to keep our phone lines as free as possible for patients requiring medical assistance.

Please telephone us after 10am: 0131 322 9333

Online Form

If you're not registered with our online services, you can use our online form

Order your repeat prescription via our online Repeat Prescription form. No account required.

Use our online form

Use Online Services

The easiest way to order your prescription is by using our online services.

Learn more about online services

Your Local Pharmacy

Pharmacy Ordering / Collection Service

Your pharmacy can order your medication on your behalf. This saves you time and unnecessary visits to the Practice. Please contact the Pharmacy of your choice for more information if you wish to use this service.

Some pharmacies offer a prescription app for your mobile phone that you may find convenient to use.

About pharmacists

As qualified healthcare professionals, pharmacists can offer advice on minor illnesses such as:

  • coughs
  • colds
  • sore throats
  • tummy trouble
  • aches and pains

They can also advise on medicine that you can buy without a prescription.

Find a pharmacy

By Post

You can post your prescription slip or written request through the letterbox at the reception desk.

Questions About Your Prescription

If you have questions about your medicine, your local pharmacists can answer these. They can also answer questions on medicines you can buy without a prescription.

The NHS website has information on how your medicine works, how and when to take it, possible side effects and answers to your common questions.

View the NHS Medicines A to Z

If you would like to speak to someone at the GP surgery about your prescription, please contact us.

Find a Pharmacy

Use the NHS Pharmacy finder to locate pharmacies near you.

Find a pharmacy