How do you get your Prescription in France (1 Viewer)

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When we get travelling again how do you deal with getting your prescriptions abroad.
Since we last went to France we are both now on permanent daily medication and hopefully going to France mid July for 2 to 3 months if allowed. Can you get 3months supply. ? If not.
How do you get your medication?
 
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I was only reading a couple of days back that the cross border prescription for UK people is no longer allowed.
As above you need 3 months worth to take with you.

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Our GP will give 3 months to cover a long holiday. Alternatively try getting ahead a bit with your medications although you've left it a bit late for that now but worth doing over the next year before next year's holiday!
 

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Our doctor will only give 2 months prescription.
But we can order online every 6 weeks and build up the required supply, if you start soon enough.
Your dr might prescribe 3 months as a one off if you ask nicely?

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If you cannot get three months, consider a family member to get a repeat prescription after 2 months and get them to post them to you. We have done this in the past. We got our daughter to remove all the tablets from the boxes and just post the blister packs. Packed down nice and small into a jiffy bag and posted.( daughter did not make comment about the blue ones:love:)
 

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I can understand why, if someone drops dead after a month then that’s 2 months of drugs wasted as they cannot take them back

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PJGWiltshire

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Pharmacist explained it to me. Its around waste in that there are times when the Dr changes your meds having issued three months then the old ones are wasted. We travel long periods away and get three months without any issues. The Dr insists on a quick blood test and review prior to us setting off on long trips. So we then can get extra sent out via post. We also take the repeat script list with us in case we have need to visit a local Dr. In Spain we have bought replacements over the counter as the meds we are on for blood pressure and are very cheap.
 
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Pharmacist explained it to me. Its around waste in that there are times when the Dr changes your meds having issued three months then the old ones are wasted. We travel long periods away and get three months without any issues. The Dr insists on a quick blood test and review prior to us setting off on long trips. So we then can get extra sent out via post. We also take the repeat script list with us in case we have need to visit a local Dr. In Spain we have bought replacements over the counter as the meds we are on for blood pressure and are very cheap.
I suppose the NHS app would do the job now as that has all our information for the doctors on it including vaccines.
Our biggest problem is the better half has had a stoma and the amount of stuff she requires would be difficult to post discreetly
 

PJGWiltshire

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I suppose the NHS app would do the job now as that has all our information for the doctors on it including vaccines.
Our biggest problem is the better half has had a stoma and the amount of stuff she requires would be difficult to post discreetly
I appreciate my method may not fit all. Now we are out of the EU even sending a parcel with any meds has now got problems

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Just seen your question. First of all, if you have your english prescription with you or a copy of it, any pharmacy in France will give you at least a renewal to help you ( a few days or more) . Only thing you will have to pay for your tablets.
Now if you want a 3 months more prescription, you have to go and see any French doctor , show him/her your prescription and he/she will give you a renewal . Doctor visit is 25 euros, then you pay for your medication at the pharmacy
Hope this answers your query

Amicalement
Frankie :giggle:
 

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That’s nice to know but I think a lot of people want them free like at home, that’s why a lot want the 3 months in one go
 
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I guess so, but this is a solution in case your are desperate and in need of your usual medication. Since brexit, I suppose nothing will be as easy as before.

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I guess so, but this is a solution in case your are desperate and in need of your usual medication. Since brexit, I suppose nothing will be as easy as before.
You are a diamond on all things Frenchy on this forum, fortunately I don't need meds, my brother does though and he travels in/through France regularly.
 

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In France do they pay for each individual drug or is it one payment regardless how many drugs ?
 
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Just seen your question. First of all, if you have your english prescription with you or a copy of it, any pharmacy in France will give you at least a renewal to help you ( a few days or more) . Only thing you will have to pay for your tablets.
Now if you want a 3 months more prescription, you have to go and see any French doctor , show him/her your prescription and he/she will give you a renewal . Doctor visit is 25 euros, then you pay for your medication at the pharmacy
Hope this answers your query

Amicalement
Frankie :giggle:
Many thanks Frankie. This helps greatly and will ease the stress levels if we start to run low. We will still try and get our supplies before we travel if possible (paid for not free) just for continuity.
Fortunately for us we have not had to use any other healthcare before so have no previous experience of How it all works. Thanks again for the help and information.

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The €25 you pay the doctor includes his fee for writing the scrip. You then pay the pharmacist the retail price of each different drug. Some drugs in either France or Spain that we need a prescription for though - they don't need a scrip for but can buy them from the pharmacy OK if you can either explain to the pharmacist what's wrong with you and need the drug for - or easier to show them a copy of your existing repeat prescription list. Some things are ridiculously cheap and some ridiculously dear.

Even when in the EU, because we had to pay the same as a French or Spanish etc national to visit a GP - we still had to cough up approx €25 for that anyway - so there's nowt different there.
 
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I appreciate things may have changed since Brexit.. 2019 in France walked into a small village pharmacy with the repeat part of my UK prescription asked for 6 months of each of 4 tablets and voila.... all done. Not an eyelid batted and the cost was really quite reasonable. 3 for BP and a statin so common drugs I guess. And a bloody big carrier bag of pills
 
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I take enough tablets to cover my trip and a little longer, this gives me time on return, not to run out of them.

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I had my heart attack in Spain in January 2020 and was banned from driving for 1 month after the operation, so delaying our rreturn to Scotland. The Surgeon explained that he could only prescribe medication for 1 month from discharge, so that gave me 1 week's margin to drive up through Spain, France & England before medication ran out, whilst following the Surgeon's advice not to overdo the driving! It was not going to be possible, so had to take a calculated risk by leaving 1 day before the driving prohibition expired to ensure that I could reach home before the medication ran out ... 'And avoid stressful situations' were the last words from the Surgeon, IIRC ...

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Got to Barfleur and wife discovered she had left her thyroxin behind in the Uk! I went into local pharmacy!And explained situation! No problem! Gave us 1 months supply 2 euro.Same thing in Spain! Brother in law forgot his heart pills.Got some the same!

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We’ve had a cottage in France for over seven years, just take the repeat slip and the box three different types to the chemist 11 Euros. Been to several different chemists
 

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Your doctor should agree to give you 3 months, mine does so long as I can tell them the approximate date I'll be returning to the UK so that it shows that I do need that much.

If you pay for your prescriptions thing about getting a Prescription Pre-payment Certificate (its all electronic so no physical certificate/card is issued), I get a 3 month one which, with careful ordering, I can get enough to last at least 4 months usually 5, but even if I have to have 3 x 3 month ones it still works out cheaper than a 12 month one.

I can order repeat prescriptions on-line and have some that I get in one month issues and one in 2 month issues, the former can be ordered 3 weeks after it was last issued and the latter 7 weeks, so this allows me to build up a 'buffer' amount. I hasten to add that I wouldn't do this for meds that may be changed every now and then due to wastage and unnecessary cost to the NHS, but for my usual ones which I've been on for a long time and will continue to be it makes sense.
 

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