Is this usual practice?

[Segilla]

Having a badly cut leg, treatment has been given at both A&E and the local surgery.
The surgery nurse wrote me a prescription and I collected it from the chemist before going back to her for a second dressing. It comprissed a large pack of dressings and two half litre bottles of antiseptic fluid.
She gave me a few dressings to take on holday and kept the bottles and he rest of the dressings..
Don't MD practices get a budget for dressings etc or is this all in order?

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[chinadog]

She wrote you out a script only to take it back off you? If I were you I would ring the surgery and complain!

[daffy654]

During my daughter's last pregnancy she developed an abscess on her leg,she had it drained and debraded and it had to be dressed daily,she also had to get her dressings and sterile water on prescription,the district nurse then used these to clean and dress the wound.It is normal practice.

[baileybird]

it is certainly NOT normal practice to precribe and then keep it for other peoples use.

Doctors surgeries are highly profitable organsations and it is fundamentally wrong that this is happening.

I would do as chinadog has said and challenge this with the surgery.

Prescriptions are expensive, and the property issued belongs to you NOT the doctors, If you get free prescriptions, the tax payer is coughing up for the surgeries basic medical supplies which is very very wrong.

[Segilla]

Thanks for responses.
It felt wrong but I would find it very difficult to shop the practice. I need them more than they need me.

[bednobs]

is she going to use the on you at a later date?

[Segilla]

No. The wound is virtually healed now.