Poll: Are you happy with your local chemist/pharmacy?

Are you happy with your local chemist/pharmacy?

  • Yes

    Votes: 56 84.8%

  • No

    Votes: 10 15.2%
  • Total voters
    66
Just waiting really, and that's not even for prescriptions. There seems to be so much red tape that even when the pharmacist is only carrying out simple transactions for painkillers they often go through the whole charade of advising not to take ibuprofen on an empty stomach and the same stuff about not taking this and that medicine if you've already taken this and that. It's quite boring having to wait in a queue and hear it about 4 times before being told it yourself. If people can't read the packaging, more fool them!
 
I usually use the one in my local Sainsbury's, and have never had a problem. Although on a few occasions I do go to large chemists a mile or so up the road, but only as one of the Pharmacists there is a smoking hot Indian bird who likes a flirt.

A free tea/coffee machine would be nice.
 
water tablets (ferusamide?) - they gave her too many causing her to dehydrate and damage to kidneys. Took us a week before we realised why she was constantly being sick, and got re-admitted to hospital just a week after the heart op.

They'd already screwed up once before (prior to this) by giving her angina tablets instead of metaformin claiming the packets looked the same (yes they did and we agreed to let her off with her claiming it was a genuine mistake).

When it happened again (especially at such a sensitive time) - I went all the way and reported her as well as threatened court action. I wasn't very impressed with the regulation authority as all they did was 're-iterate the importance of following procedure'

Ultimately the pharmacist is responsible for what is given to the end customers. Once that level of trust is gone - so are the customers.
 
Happy with my local one for medication and the odd pick me item, and another one local but a bit further away has a really good selection of cards/gifts for birthdays etc.
 
zoomee said:
water tablets (ferusamide?) - they gave her too many causing her to dehydrate and damage to kidneys. Took us a week before we realised why she was constantly being sick, and got re-admitted to hospital just a week after the heart op.

They'd already screwed up once before (prior to this) by giving her angina tablets instead of metaformin claiming the packets looked the same (yes they did and we agreed to let her off with her claiming it was a genuine mistake).

When it happened again (especially at such a sensitive time) - I went all the way and reported her as well as threatened court action. I wasn't very impressed with the regulation authority as all they did was 're-iterate the importance of following procedure'

Ultimately the pharmacist is responsible for what is given to the end customers. Once that level of trust is gone - so are the customers.
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Oddly my family had almost the opposite experience to you, the pharmacist saved my step-fathers life. He was suffering from extremely high blood pressure but also had something else wrong at the time. The gp he went to see prescribed medication that combined with his high blood pressure would have resulted in a massive heart attack. It was only because he normally got blood pressure meds that the pharmacist twigged.
 
Dis86 said:
Oddly my family had almost the opposite experience to you, the pharmacist saved my step-fathers life. He was suffering from extremely high blood pressure but also had something else wrong at the time. The gp he went to see prescribed medication that combined with his high blood pressure would have resulted in a massive heart attack. It was only because he normally got blood pressure meds that the pharmacist twigged.
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You would be shocked at how often then happens!

Daily calls to the surgery either to question what the gp prescribed or asking what on earth a hand written script says!
 
You really need to be able to skip the 10 person queue of old people who are going to have a 15 minute chat about their prescription if you just came in to pick up some aspirin. Other than that, no issue.
 
Never considered a pharmacy as something to be either satisfied or dissatisfied with. I've never not had a prescription filled etc.
 
I bought some items the other day and the service was bang on. "Yo, gimmee some jimmy hats my brother", "what size you need dog?", "regular would be just fine thanks homes" etc.
 
Poll options? I was about to just put the thread title and Yes/No but figured you might want something a little more snazzy.
 
1) A ticket system like at a supermarket deli would be better than the current system of them calling out your name and them you having to give them your home address in front of the other customers.

2) Consistency of when the pharmacist will be unavailable, unlike my local Asda pharmacy where you can go to find a crap hand written note to say s/he is at lunch and to come back later. This can be at any time of the day...

3) To tell me one item is not available without me having already waited 20 minutes.

4) To not fill 75% of available floorspace with sunglasses rotundas, tatty earring stands and ChupaChup carousels which mean you have to be built like a corn snake to be able to traverse the shop without knocking half the stock on the floor.
 
Luke said:
1) A ticket system like at a supermarket deli would be better than the current system of them calling out your name and them you having to give them your home address in front of the other customers.

2) Consistency of when the pharmacist will be unavailable, unlike my local Asda pharmacy where you can go to find a crap hand written note to say s/he is at lunch and to come back later. This can be at any time of the day...

3) To tell me one item is not available without me having already waited 20 minutes.

4) To not fill 75% of available floorspace with sunglasses rotundas, tatty earring stands and ChupaChup carousels which mean you have to be built like a corn snake to be able to traverse the shop without knocking half the stock on the floor.
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1.) Unfortunately this has to be done and is a legal check, to change this would require badgering the people at the top.

The rest of them I understand where you're coming from
 
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