Are your medicines stacking up? Only order what you need

Every year, about £18 million worth of medicines goes to waste in West Yorkshire. This includes things like inhalers, pain medicine, and creams.

The NHS needs your help! Following these easy steps when ordering your medicines:

How you can help

1. Only order what you need - before getting more, check what medicines you already have.
2. 2. Return extras – when picking up your medicines at the pharmacy, only take what you need. If you return something before leaving, it can likely be reused
3. 3. Stick to your routine – order your medicines when you're running low (7-10 days before its needed), and no earlier.

By doing this, you will:

• Get the right medicines and care

• Help reduce waste

• Save NHS resources

• Help reduce environmental harm

It’s also safer! Keeping too much medicine can cause confusion especially if your prescription changes and harm to children and pets in the home if they come into their reach.

You are encouraged to speak with your GP or pharmacy team if there are repeat medicines you no longer need or want to take anymore. A more appropriate plan will then be discussed with you if necessary.

If you have any questions, your GP, practice team or pharmacy team can help. Reach out to them for advice.

Find out more by visiting the website: www.wypartnership.co.uk/orderwhatyouneed

WE HOPE TO SEE YOU AT OUR NEXT MEETING 

WEDNESDAY 23rd JULY : 5pm - 7pm

In the

Beverley Kite Room

First Floor

North Leeds Medical Practice

355 Harrogate Road

Leeds LS17 6PZ

 If you’ve got a stoma

 or are a relative, parent or carer of someone with a stoma

AND you live in North Leeds

Please come along for a chat about anything you want

Refreshments available

A representative of the Ileostomy & Internal Pouch Association will be joining us, but it doesn’t matter if you’ve got an ileostomy, colostomy or urostomy…

We look forward to seeing you

For further information or any enquiry, please telephone : 07776 296319

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Patients who have visited the Alwoodley Medical Centre recently will have noticed that a new notice board and accompanying bookcase have appeared in the waiting area.

Your Patient Participation Group is proud to introduce The Reading Well Scheme which suggests helpful reading for adults and young people experiencing a variety of conditions.

We hope that you will read the posters on the noticeboard because they explain how each group of patients is targeted and supported.

We have provided leaflets of recommended titles which you can take away.

In addition, we have provided examples, of other books which we believe could be helpful. All the books that you will see on display in the AMC waiting area have been borrowed from our nearby Moor Allerton library.

It is hoped that if a patient, or relative, sees a book which may prove helpful, they will take the short walk down to the library and ask to borrow it.

For any patient who is not a member of the library, this is not a problem. The friendly library staff will enrol you and if the book that you have requested is not immediately available, they will get if for you within days.

Also, although there will be a recommended return date, this is not something to worry about as there are no longer fines for late returns and the books can be returned to any Leeds library.

Did you know you can manage repeat prescriptions from Alwoodley Medical centre in the NHS App?

You can easily choose where your prescriptions are sent. So, if you know you'll be away from home or you are moving home, you can change your nominated pharmacy from within the app.

You can also order your prescription at any time that suits you. There’s no need to wait to join a telephone queue or wait until the GP surgery opens.

It’s easy to use, and, if you hit a snag, you can go to ‘Help’ in the top right-hand corner of the app or visit nhs.uk/helpmeapp.

Find out more about the NHS App at: www.nhs.uk/nhsapp

Register for Online services with the surgery click here