Structured medication reviews

A medicines review is there to make sure your medications are safe and working well for you. This is more important for people who take lots of different medicines, or people with lots of medical conditions, but anyone on any regular medications may need a review.

If you are due a medicines review, we will contact you either by text message or by letter to let you know. It is important to have a medicines review if you are due one. Not completing a review may mean that your repeat prescription is delayed, or that you are given a smaller supply of medication until the review has been completed.

If you are a new patient to the practice and take regular medicines, you may be invited as part of your registration checks to ensure the your medication records are up to date.

You will have an appointment with one of the practice pharmacists.  They work with your usual GP and will ask questions to see how you are managing with your medicines. This review is also your chance to tell us more about how your medicines work for you, and gives you the opportunity to ask any questions you may have about your medications.

Your wishes are important to us. No medicines will be changed without your agreement and if needed, the Pharmacist will arrange any follow up appointments with you.

This review can normally be done by telephone, but can be done face-to-face if needed.

It is good to have all your medicines with you when you have your appointment. If someone else helps you to manage your medicines, you may want to ask them to be at the appointment with you.

You may also want to prepare some questions to ask the Pharmacist at your review, like:

To request a structured medication review, please click here. Once we have received your request, a member of the reception team will be back in touch to organise a date and time that is suitable for you.

If you are struggling to complete the form and need assistance, please call us on 01612 263 620, where one of our friendly reception team will help you.