NHS repeat prescriptions
Choose us as your nominated pharmacy once, and your GP sends your prescriptions straight to us. We'll remind you by text when your next one is due, or order it for you so you don't run out.
How to switch to us →Online pharmacy · Providing NHS services
Push Pharmacy is an online NHS pharmacy for anyone registered with a GP in England. We order, check and deliver your repeat medicines, and remind you before you run out.
We'll let you know by text or email when your parcel is on its way.
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NHS Pharmacy First
Our pharmacists can assess you on a video call and, where suitable, give you NHS treatment, including some prescription medicines, for six common conditions.
An NHS service. Other criteria apply. If you usually pay for prescriptions, the standard charge applies to any medicine you're given. Earache in children needs an in-person check, so please visit a high-street pharmacy for that.
Getting started
Switching to Push Pharmacy takes a few minutes. After that, we do the chasing for you.
Fill in our short form. We'll contact you within 1 working day to talk through your medicines.
Where your GP surgery allows it, we request your repeat prescriptions for you. If not, we remind you when they're due.
A pharmacist checks every prescription. We tell you when it's received and when it's ready to send.
Most items arrive by Royal Mail in plain, discreet packaging. Some areas get delivery from our own drivers.
Our services
Our NHS services are funded by the NHS. Everything is handled remotely by our pharmacists and dispensers, by phone, video call, email and online.
Choose us as your nominated pharmacy once, and your GP sends your prescriptions straight to us. We'll remind you by text when your next one is due, or order it for you so you don't run out.
How to switch to us →Get advice and, where suitable, NHS treatment for sinusitis, sore throat, shingles, impetigo, infected insect bites and urinary tract infections in women, by video call and without a GP appointment. Age limits and other criteria apply.
Call us to arrange →Just started a new medicine for a long-term condition such as asthma, COPD, type 2 diabetes or high blood pressure? Our pharmacists will check in with you by phone or video over the first few weeks.
Ask us about it →Have a private prescription from a UK prescriber? Send us an enquiry and we'll give you a price for dispensing and delivery.
Ask for a price →Who we help
Anyone in England can use our NHS services. You just need to be registered with a GP practice in England. When you use us, you get:
Push Pharmacy is a distance selling pharmacy. We provide our NHS services remotely, so we can't offer face-to-face services or collections at our premises. If you need to see a pharmacist in person, any high-street pharmacy can help.
Delivery is free. You'll pay the usual NHS prescription charge for each item, unless you don't have to pay for prescriptions.
In an emergency, call 999. For urgent medical help, use NHS 111 online or call 111.
Questions
Fill in our short sign-up form. A member of our team will contact you to talk through your medicines and arrange your first delivery.
You can also choose us as your nominated pharmacy yourself in the NHS App, or ask your GP surgery to change it for you.
Choosing a nominated pharmacy is optional, you can change it at any time, and you don't need a computer to do it. Just call us or your GP surgery.
No, delivery is free. You'll pay the standard NHS prescription charge for each item unless you're entitled to free prescriptions, just as you would at any pharmacy.
Yes. Some surgeries don't allow pharmacies to order on your behalf. If that's the case, we can still remind you when your prescription is due. Order it from your surgery as usual and we'll deliver your medicines to you.
Most medicines are sent by Royal Mail in plain, discreet packaging. In some areas we can deliver using our own drivers. We'll let you know when we send your items, and you may get a text or email on the day your parcel is due.
We can deliver to your workplace, a carer or a neighbour, or you can choose a safe place for us to leave your items. If nobody is in, a card will usually be left so you can arrange free redelivery.
We're an NHS pharmacy that manages, dispenses and delivers repeat prescriptions across England. Our team includes pharmacists, dispensing technicians and healthcare advisors, and our job is to get you the right medicines at the right time.
Trust and safety
Push Pharmacy is registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), the independent regulator for pharmacies in Great Britain.
You can also check our Superintendent Pharmacist's registration, or search the GPhC register for the pharmacist on duty. All medicines are dispensed and labelled at our registered pharmacy.
Check our registrationSigning up takes a couple of minutes. We'll take it from there.