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Repeat Prescription on LTI Scheme

  • 14-07-2016 9:30pm
    #1
    Aeternum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 471 ✭✭


    Quick question if anyone could help out.

    I have type 1 diabetes and so have an LTI card that the local pharmacy hold on to. Every three months I get a repeat script from my GP and leave it into the pharmacy once a month to get my medication.

    From what I've been reading online it seems that the LTI card might actually act as a prescription and I don't need to keep getting the scripts from the GP? Is that right, or have I completely misread things?

    The clinic have been chopping and changing my insulin and glucometer and everything lately and having to go to the doctors every month or so to get my prescription changed is an awful lot of hassle.

    The hospital give me the white prescription sheet which I hand into the GP to get added to my other medications on my medical card script.

    Just wondering if this is the norm or if my diabetes supplies are always covered by LTI and I just tell pharmacy what I need?


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  • #2
    suds1984
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 222 ✭✭suds1984


    A prescription is legally valid for a maximum of six months (In certain circumstances it may even be shorter). As you have a long term illness requiring medication, you should be reviewed at a minimum of every six months - this could be more frequently if your doctor believes so in his/her professional opinion. The possession of a long term illness book only means that you are entitled to the medication related to that illness free of charge, it does not mean that you get a lifelong prescription.
    P.S. You only need to get the hospital script transcribed onto a medical card script for items that are not covered by the LTI book. You could just bring the hospital script to the pharmacy and they will be able to dispense on the LTI book. It would be good practice to take to GP as well so his/her records are up to date - but may not need to be done every month.


  • #3
    echo beach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭echo beach


    Aeternum wrote: »
    From what I've been reading online it seems that the LTI card might actually act as a prescription and I don't need to keep getting the scripts from the GP? Is that right, or have I completely misread things?

    The LTI card, or 'green book,' tells the pharmacy that you are entitled to get particular medicines free of charge. In your case you can get those on the list for diabetes.
    There is a space in the book for your GP to write in your prescription but your prescription does NOT have to be in the book. If you have a valid prescription, from either the clinic or your GP, then you can get it dispensed for as long as it is valid (which is a maximum of 6 months).
    Any medications which aren't covered by your LTI card will still have to be written on to a medical card prescription which is for either a single supply or a 3 month supply. Your pharmacy will advise you which these are.
    Do make sure that when your medicines are changed that they are deleted from any older prescriptions you still have and your records are updated. Always keep an up to date record of what exactly you are using, either a written list or a photo of the packets on your phone. This is very important for insulin in particular as many insulins have very similar names and can get mixed up with disastrous results.


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