I NEED chronic medication and recently I have been hassled by pharmacy staff to sign forms for an Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) from them.
I have received no directive from the NHS about EPS and my own GP practice has told me that there has been no directive to patients from them regarding EPS.
This seems to be a clandestine competition in the business for prescription medicines.
I wonder, after watching these forms being handed out to patients waiting in the pharmacy for their medicines, how many people are being signed up with these forms without realizing that they are guaranteeing a dispensing monopoly to a particular pharmaceutical company?
RICHARD EVANS, Southampton.
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