Can they not do a handwritten one any more? How hopeless!

My theory is that doctors' handwriting has now progressed from "notoriously hard to read" to "actually completely illegible" now that they rely on printers nearly all the time :-)

I think they still have to hand-write scrips for controlled drugs. However that might conceivably involve different stationery to regular scrips.

Can they not put a scrip request into the system so you can some back to collect it in a few days' time?

I presume it's now easy for Simon to get the prescription once the printers are working, as the tedious administrativa about seeing a GP has been done.

Actually, it should be even easier than that: they promised to print my prescription out later today and stick it in the post. But based on their recent level of organisation I won't put my money on that actually happening...

I have only ever received hospital-pharmacy-only hand-written scrips, and by a consultant, at that.

There was an item on the news a few days ago that the increased use of printed prescriptions was the most likely cause for a huge rise in fake prescriptions.

Turns out that the unreadable handwriting of a doctor is pretty difficult to fake and easy to recognize (due to the extensive training required) by the pharmacist.

So now we will probably go to use pki to solve this problem :(.

I got a handwritten one in Whitby this March...