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Our prescription service is now paperless. If you do not have a designated pharmacy for your prescription, contact the surgery.

Advice and guidance to patients who access private treatment from a specialist without being referred by their GP and how Seaside Medical Centre can only prescribe 'shared care' medications initiated by an NHS provider of care.  See our information on Shared Care Agreements

The easiest ways to order repeat prescriptions are:

• using your NHS account  (through the NHS website or in the NHS App)
• using the GP online system Patient Access

These accounts show you all your repeat medicine and dosage and you can choose the ones you need.

You can also:

• fill out a repeat prescription form 
• bring the paper form to the practice, Monday to Friday from 8:30am to 5.30pm 
• request through our email sxicb-smcprescriptionservice@nhs.net 

Your prescription will be ready for collection from the pharmacy 3 to 5  working days after you have ordered it.

If you prefer, we can post it back to you (you will need to provide a stamped, addressed envelope). The surgery can't control postal times. So, please be aware and allow time for prescriptions to return during busy periods. Please note we are unable to take prescription requests over the phone. 

if you have any questions about your medicine, your local pharmacy can answer these.  They can also answer questions on medicine you buy without a prescription.

The NHS Website has information on:

• how your medicine works
• how and when to take it
• possible side effects
• answers to common questions

Go to Medicines A to Z (nhs.uk)

If you would like to speak to someone at Seaside Medical Centre about your prescription please ring after 10am on 01323 725667. Patients can also raise prescription queries through our prescription email address sxicb-smcprescriptionservice@nhs.net 

Community pharmacists will provide care for patients using the new Pharmacy First Service. Patients will not need to visit their GP. 

The team at Seaside Medical Centre will triage patients who call. They will refer them to the pharmacist, depending on the condition and appropriateness. Pharmacists can give advice and NHS-funded treatment for these 7 conditions. They can do so if it's suitable.

• Sinusitis for adults and children aged 12 and over

• Sore throat for adults and children aged 5 and over

• Acute otitis media for children aged 1 to 17years

• Infected insect bite for adults and children aged 1 year and over

• Impetigo for adults and children aged 1 year and over

• Shingles for adults aged 18 years and over, and

• Uncomplicated urinary tract infections in women aged 16-64 years.

The pharmacy will tell a patient's General Practice the result. 

From 1st May 2014, we need permission for prescription collections. We must record them in our system. This is to meet the Care Quality Commission's security and data protection standard. Staff may request a date of birth along with the name when collecting prescriptions. With this in mind, make sure the collector has the right info. We will not give prescriptions to anyone other than the patient. They must have recorded permission.

If you have a repeat prescription,we may ask you to come in for a regular review.  We wil be in touch when you need to come in for a review. 

Take it to the pharamacy you got it from.  Do not put it in your household bin or flush it down the toilet.  Please dispose of needles safely in a sharps box and arrange for collection by ringing Easbourne Borough Council Cleansing Department on 01323 410 000