People with repeat prescriptions have one crucial thing to check before Easter
manchestereveningnews.co.ukHaving a long-term or lifelong medical condition often requires a great deal of prescription juggling, such as having to figure out when your medication might run out and when you will next be able to make it to your pharmacy for a refill.
But there are a few days every year when planning goes out the window and the NHS finds itself swamped by requests for prescriptions.
The NHS's non urgent 111 number is swamped with people caught short unexpectedly every Bank Holiday, with many leaving their refills until the national day off, not realising that their pharmacy has closed for the day as well.
This can leave patients panicking that they might run out of their essential treatments. Easter gets the worst of it, with call handlers seeing a 250 per cent increase in people seeking repeat prescriptions when they have other people to triage and find medical care for.
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