Private Prescription Cost? Don’t pay more than you need to

The cost of medicines on a private prescription varies depending on the type of medicine, the cost will be displayed once the item has been selected and added to your basket.

It can take 3-5 days for Dock Pharmacy to receive your paper prescription when it is sent to DOCK pHARMACY 128 Dock Road, Tilbury Essex RM18 7BJ.

Once we have received your prescription it can take up to 48 hours for us to dispense your medication.

We deliver your medication by Royal Mail and it requires your signature on delivery and the delivery can take 2-5 days.

The pharmacy accepts both E-prescriptions (Electronically signed prescriptions) and the original paper prescription.

E-prescriptions (Electronically signed prescriptions:

Your doctor or healthcare prescriber can email the E-prescriptions (Electronically signed prescriptions) direct to the pharmacy at info@dockpharmacy.co.uk

Original paper prescription

You will need to post the original paper prescription to Dock Pharmacy

Postal Address to send your Prescriptions:

Dock Pharmacy

PO BOX 579

128 DOCK ROAD

TILBURY

UK

RM17 9QS

A private prescription is valid for 6 months from the date on the prescription.

A prescription written by a doctor in all EU countries is valid in the UK. Click the link to check if your country is listed.

Prescriptions are subject to the rules in the UK where they are dispensed. This means that a pharmacist will apply national rules when dispensing your medicine – for example, you may not be allowed the same number of days’ dosage.

For more information about cross border prescriptions within the EU countries, click here

If your prescription is not from a UK registered doctor or you are not from the EU with an EU prescription then we would not be able to dispense your medication.

Prescriptions issued in the EEA and Switzerland after Brexit

From 1 January 2021, a prescription issued in an EEA member state (EU countries, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) or Switzerland can be dispensed in the UK if the prescriber is from a profession recognised by this guidance that is legally entitled to issue a prescription of that kind in the country in which the prescription is issued.

Criteria:

• the prescription was issued in an approved country
• the prescriber is practising in a profession recognised by the UK in relation to that country

Before we can dispense your prescription, we would need to contact the competent authority in the country in which the prescription was issued in order to check the registration of the prescriber and whether they are authorised to issue a prescription of that kind in that country.

We have the right to exercise our professional discretion to refuse to dispense a prescription if any of the following apply:

• it would not ordinarily be dispensed in the UK
• there are doubts over its authenticity
• there are concerns about the clinical appropriateness of the medicine(s) for the patient
• it would cause any issues of health and safety

Prescribing-approved countries and professions list

Regulation 214(6A) of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (as amended by the Human Medicines (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019) refers to a list of approved countries and professions for the purpose of the definition of “approved country health professional”.

Prescriptions issued by a prescriber who is practising in a listed profession in a listed country may be recognised in the UK. These professions and countries are:

Approved professions

• doctors
• dentists
• pharmacists
• nurses
• physiotherapists
• chiropodists or podiatrists
• community nurses
• optometrists
• therapeutic radiographers
• paramedics

Approved countries

• Austria
• Belgium
• Bulgaria
• Croatia
• Cyprus
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Estonia
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Greece
• Hungary
• Iceland
• Republic of Ireland
• Italy
• Latvia
• Liechtenstein
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Malta
• The Netherlands
• Norway
• Poland
• Portugal
• Romania
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland

These lists will be reviewed at least every 3 years from the date that the country or profession was included on the list. The government will communicate any changes in good time so that pharmacists are able to recognise and dispense prescriptions appropriately.