Out of hours abuse

typical caring medic,full of love for their fellow man

maybe it's because they are not coping with life very well and getting their scripts sorted out is just one of the things they aren't coping with.
also, some people are working so damn hard, that their script is the last thing on their mind...until they have run out

Finally a blog that I agree with! The amount of requests we get on a Saturday for emergency supplies is obscene.

Perhaps the stats are telling you that GP surgeries should be open on Saturdays, which might be the only day some patients can find the time to sort their scripts.

GPs really do live in cloud cuckoo land.

Extended opening hours? Which GP surgery is this? I'd like to register please.

The most emergency requests we get at our pharmacy on a Saturday are from elderly, forgetful customers or customers who work full time and just didn't have time to sort out a prescriptions. Thank goodness for the pharmacists working weekends, otherwise these people would go without their salbutamol inhalers or water tablets until the GP's decide to turn up for work on Monday.

Most of the requests I get are from people who have scripts dispensed by GPs and who think surgeriea are still open on Saturdays. Pay for an emergency supply? I'll just have to be ill over the weekend then! Sorry, but you're the one who couldn't (or wouldn't?) go to the surgery in time.

The sad thing is most Doctors working for OOH providers are GPs in thier day job, and fail to see the irony of their actions. Patients are smart and cute and will know how they can access medication they may not be access through normal routes as OOH Providers do not have access to patient notes. It is phenominal to see the kind of scripts OOH GPs write without any knowledge of a patients history, This is despite having SOPs and formulary to follow. PCTs fail to use this data to monitor thier in hours service. There is a failing at all levels here starting with the in hours service.