Doctor shares advice to patients waiting for prescriptions amid global IT outageSky News
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00:00And one of the really worrying things is people being able to get their prescriptions, of course, it's digitised.
00:06Certainly I know when I'm ordering stuff for my mum, for example, I'm not allowed to order way in advance.
00:12It has to be within the next last few days. So potentially patients could run out of really crucial medications.
00:20That's right. So what the advice has been to patients is to go and see their pharmacist
00:25who would be able to dispense three days worth of medication to make sure that,
00:30you know, this is not going to be an issue over the weekend.
00:33So this is obviously clearly very worrying for patients across the board,
00:37not being able to have their prescriptions issued.
00:40But the advice is very much to go to the pharmacist who can issue that medication over the next few days.
00:48If they have those prescriptions already in place with the GP surgeries.