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Our doctor in Ireland has given us prescriptions in what she described as a format that should be accepted in the EU. However a pharmacy in Los Alcázares and another in Santiago de la Ribera have declined to fill it. Does anyone know a pharmacy that regularly fills prescriptions issued by Irish or UK doctors?
Thanks in advance. Conor
Posted: Thu Feb 6, 2025 8:41pm
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The 24hr pharmacy in san javier are very good. Try them.
C. Alicante, 1, 30730 San Javier, Murcia.
Posted: Thu Feb 6, 2025 10:39pm
Dax wrote on Thu Feb 6, 2025 8:41pm:
The 24hr pharmacy in san javier are very good. Try them.
C. Alicante, 1, 30730 San Javier, Murcia.
Thank you, I'll try there
Posted: Fri Feb 7, 2025 2:52pm
Or possibly closer to you, the one next to restaurant La Plaza...
Plaza del Segura, just off Avenida Mar Menor
Posted: Fri Feb 7, 2025 3:02pm
StephenB wrote on Fri Feb 7, 2025 2:52pm:
Or possibly closer to you, the one next to restaurant La Plaza...
Plaza del Segura, just off Avenida Mar Menor
Thanks Stephen, I'll try that one also. The pharmacies that declined to fill the script never gave an understandable reason.
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Posted: Fri Feb 7, 2025 4:06pm
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I can understand a pharmacist being wary of a prescription from a foreign doctor. If you are from Northern Ireland you would additionally be from outside the EU. Imagine taking a script from a Spanish doctor into say a Boots dispensary in England.
Posted: Fri Feb 7, 2025 4:15pm
PeterC wrote on Fri Feb 7, 2025 4:06pm:
I can understand a pharmacist being wary of a prescription from a foreign doctor. If you are from Northern Ireland you would additionally be from outside the EU. Imagine taking a script from a Spanish doctor into say a Boots dispensary in England.
Perhaps, but as far as I am aware there is a reciprocol EU protocol on filling prescriptions and pharmacies in Ireland (RoI) fill prescriptions from EU (and UK) provided they are in the prescribed format. The 2 we tried in Spain didn't, and I hope the ones referenced to date will.
Thanks.
I tick what i need leave it with the receptionist at the doctors surgery and pick it up
the next day never had any problem if you don't speak Spanish maybe you should
take someone with you who does
Posted: Fri Feb 7, 2025 6:22pm
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Caballo wrote on Fri Feb 7, 2025 5:10pm:
I tick what i need leave it with the receptionist at the doctors surgery and pick it up
the next day never had any problem if you don't speak Spanish maybe you should
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take someone with you who does
I don't think from the OP's posts that he is going to a doctor, merely trying to get a pharmacist to dispense using his own doctor's prescriptions? Assuming he is a visitor then advice is always to bring enough meds with you for your stay. Failing that he may need to take the scripts to a private doctor and get a prescription from them?
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2025 9:10am
Caballo wrote on Fri Feb 7, 2025 5:10pm:
I tick what i need leave it with the receptionist at the doctors surgery and pick it up
the next day never had any problem if you don't speak Spanish maybe you should
Read more...
take someone with you who does
Not what I wad asking, but thanks anyway
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