Prescriptions
We can offer you a private prescription during your consultation if appropriate. This can be dispensed either locally or by Pharmacierge who can arrange dispatch. You will pay the pharmacy a fee to cover the cost of the drug/device and their dispensing. This is not covered under the NHS prepayment certificate schemes.
How does private prescribing work?
Responsibility
We can issue a prescription for as long as it is clinically reasonable. This may be 3 months for the first and six months for a subsequent script.
Annual Review
If providing you with regular prescriptions we will need to see or talk to you once a year and check that is is still the best option for you.
Repeats
When you need a repeat we ask you to email the request. We will charge for this service outside of a review appointment.
Delivery Option
We can send your prescription to Pharmacierge who dispense private prescriptions from their London base to anywhere in the UK.
What can we do?
We can offer prescriptions for conditions that we have assessed and evaluated. We may continue prescribing initiated elsewhere if it is appropriate.
We will not prescribe for conditions we have not assessed, initiate gender reassignment treatment, prescribe opiates or most other controlled drugs.
Private Prescription FAQ's
Here is a list of frequently asked questions about private prescriptions.
Can I Ask My GP To Write A Prescription After I Have Seen You?
You can but they is under no obligation to agree. They might agree to is they understand what is being suggested and why and feel comfortable to agree with this. We cannot tell them what to do.
Can I Get My Prescription Under the NHS Prepayment Certificate Scheme?
Are Private Prescriptions Expensive?
Most items are comparable with an NHS charge though some will be more expensive. Six month supply will cost about six times a month’s supply.
Only an NHS prescription can be covered by the scheme.
Can Medication Be Dispatched Abroad?
Generally no, due to customs controls.
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Truro, Plymouth and Exeter
St Erme Medical is based in its own premises in the centre of Cornwall. All services offered can be provided here. The administration team is based in St Erme. Consultations with a doctor can also be offered in the Nuffield Health hospitals in Plymouth and Exeter.
All services are available face-to-face in St Erme. Drs Gray and Patton offer women’s health at the Nuffield Hospital in Plymouth, and Dr Gillies offers women’s health and general practice for adults at the Nuffield Hospital in Exeter.
Secure video and telephone appointments allow consultations with patients throughout the UK. These are co-ordinated by the team at St Erme.
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