03/01/2025
At the end of this month, Argyle surgery and the local pharmacies including Mendus Pharmacy and Pembroke Castle Pharmacy will be going live with the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS). This will be a huge benefit to patients and healthcare providers as the prescribing and processing of prescriptions will become much more efficient and transparent.
Although it's not mandatory for patients to switch from paper prescriptions to EPS, it is our recommendation that you do so and there are so many positives.
We would also recommend trying the new NHS Wales App as this will tie in with EPS really well. This will be the quickest way of reordering repeat prescriptions, providing up to date information regarding the request's status amongst other features.
If you would like to sign up to EPS in readiness for it's rollout, please get in touch with one of our pharmacies and we can get this arranged. Alternatively, there will be registration forms available at Argyle surgery as well as the pharmacies.
Finally, with the introduction of EPS you will probably start receiving lots of adverts from online pharmacies based miles away asking for you to switch to their service. In order for your local pharmacies to stay viable and continue offering the services that we do such as the Independent Prescribing Service and Common Ailments Service, we need you to use us for your repeat prescriptions too. So please stick with your local pharmacy!
If you have any questions or need any assistance, please get in touch.
Thanks,
Nathan, Mari and the team