Information about prescriptions and repeat prescriptions at Rowena Health. We prescribe medication according to guidance from the British Menopause Society and The Royal Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
If we decide together to prescribe a medication you have two options:
You can choose to get your prescription issued on the NHS by your GP, and use your HRT Prepay certificate, if you take HRT. You will need to arrange for this, with your GP surgery, using the letter sent to you, and them, after our consultation. Your clinic letter will be sent to you within 7 days of your consultation.
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We are happy to issue you with a private prescription for your medication. If we prescribe medication privately you will need to pay the cost of the medications, as this is not covered by your HRT prepay certificate. This payment is made to the pharmacy or online pharmacy.
Your private prescription will be sent by us, to one of our pharmacy providers after your consultation with us. We do not charge a prescription administration fee for any prescriptions issued during a consultation with you. If you request medication and outside of your consultation, there is an extra administration prescription fee chargeable, of £35.
We use CloudRx and SignatureRx, our online prescription services, where, with your consent, which is given on your initial booking form, we share your private prescription. Our private prescriptions can be delivered to your home via CloudRX, or we can send the prescription to you via SignatureRX, so that you can collect it from a local pharmacy, if that is more convenient.
We will discuss with you if we are prescribing medications out of license.
Repeat prescriptions
Repeat prescriptions can be requested using the repeat prescription button on our website. This takes an administration payment and sends you a questionnaire to complete, once we have checked this and are sure it is safe to prescribe we will issue your medication.
For safe menopause prescribing practices, medication can only be issued to women who are actively under the care of Rowena Health and are up to date with their reviews.
If you haven’t had a consultation in the past year, or if you haven’t had a three-month review following the start of your treatment or any changes to your treatment, a follow-up appointment will be necessary before issuing a menopause prescription.
Please allow 5 working days for prescriptions to be processed, please do make requests in advance of running out of medication, taking into account holiday periods. Our advice is to request when you have 2 weeks of medication left and put a reminder on your phone or diary.
A prescription will be generated and sent to our pharmacy services, above. They will need administration time to issue your medication and send it to you, or send you the prescription to take to your own local pharmacy.
We are afraid that we are not in control of any medication supply shortages, and will do our best to provide an alternative medication, if you are unable to get yours.
We prescribe up to 3 months of HRT medication on each prescription.
We prescribe up to 2 months of antidepressants on each prescription once you are stable on treatment, until then we prescribe one month of medication, in order to practice safe prescribing.
Thank you for supporting us to care for you and our other patients by giving us time to issue your medication. If you think you are running out in an emergency then please email us on [email protected]. We check emails during working hours only.
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Links to: out of license prescribing & HRT prepay certificate.