See I had the opposite with repeats. I was told I could request that a batch prescription as given to my pharmacy (Tesco as it happens) and they'd let me know when I was due a supply and it was ready to collect. I think they were given a year of prescription.
The first one went well, they called me and I collected. Then within days another message that a prescription was ready, which I collected, and sure enough, within fays another was ready.
When collecting I told them I'd only just got one but they said that's how the system worked. I suppose I could have delayed collecting them till I was ready but I thought that'd bung up their shelves. And because of the longish holidays I (try to) take these days it quite suited me to have a buffer here.
Once I got to about 8 months stash here, with a shelf looking like a pharmacy itself, I called it off and, with some difficulty, reverted to ordering when I needed them through the online thing, which I will admit works very well - place a request and within two days I get a message to collect them.
I have more or less kept the buffer going though. I take 5 pills daily and some are on one month repeat and others are on two, so it does me well to level it out seeing as the surgery won't/can't.
I keep meaning to look at the home delivery ones but Tesco suits me at the moment.
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