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LTI Book replacement

  • 06-11-2015 10:52am
    #1
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,637 ✭✭✭✭


    My LTI book is on its last page and will need to be replaced soon. Does anybody know if i have to send off the old book before they will send me out a new book? Or can i hang on to the old book until the new book arrives and then get the prescription transferred over?


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  • #2
    locum-motion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,143 ✭✭✭locum-motion


    1. Ring your local HSE office, ask to be put through to the person that deals with LTI Authorisations.
    2. Ask them.

    Seriously, you would have had the answer in less time than it took you to type your question.


  • #3
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,637 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    locum-motion wrote: »
    1. Ring your local HSE office, ask to be put through to the person that deals with LTI Authorisations.
    2. Ask them.

    Seriously, you would have had the answer in less time than it took you to type your question.

    thank you for your sterling contribution.


  • #4
    palmcut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 246 ✭✭palmcut


    Once you have an LTI number you don't actually need a book. You only need to get a new prescription every 6 months.


  • #5
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,637 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    but the pescription must be in a book


  • #6
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,514 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    The prescription must be approved for inclusion but I replaced my book recently and was told scripts don't have to be written in. My neuro still writes it in, though and pharmacy also stamp it.


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  • #7
    palmcut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 246 ✭✭palmcut


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    but the pescription must be in a book

    No, the prescription does not need to be in a book. Once your LTI number has been approved by PCRS you only need to renew your prescription every 6 months.
    The HSE issued a list of core approved drugs for each of the LTI illnesses.
    Non approved items can be applied for, but approval for non-core items is not a formality.
    The initial application has to be signed by your doctor and once all the prescribed medicines are on the core list then they are automatically approved.
    The local HSE will issue an LTI number for the patient and it may take a few weeks more before the PCRS approves that issued number.


  • #8
    Neverforgotten
    Closed Accounts Posts: 38 ✭Neverforgotten


    locum-motion wrote: »
    1. Ring your local HSE office, ask to be put through to the person that deals with LTI Authorisations.
    2. Ask them.

    Seriously, you would have had the answer in less time than it took you to type your question.

    Are you actually a medical doctor locum?


  • #9
    locum-motion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,143 ✭✭✭locum-motion


    Neverforgotten wrote: »
    Are you actually a medical doctor locum?

    I most certainly am not!
    Whatever gave you the idea that I was?
    Certainly nothing I've ever posted here!


  • #10
    locum-motion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,143 ✭✭✭locum-motion


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    thank you for your sterling contribution.

    Of all the contributions so far, my one is still the only one that will actually get you the answer to the question you asked, so don't knock it.

    Do you know the answer yet? If not, follow my advice and you'll have your answer by 9:05 tomorrow morning.
    If you had done it in the first place, you'd have had the answer at 10:33 on Friday, and if you'd done it when I suggested it you probably would have had to wait til they came back from lunch, but you would have had the answer at 2:01 on Friday.


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