{"id":2722,"date":"2025-07-01T14:04:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T13:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/Resources\/prescriptions-in-the-nhs-app\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:50:14","slug":"prescriptions-in-the-nhs-app","status":"publish","type":"resources","link":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/Resources\/prescriptions-in-the-nhs-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Prescriptions in the NHS App"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prescriptions in the NHS App<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The NHS App gives people who take regularly prescribed medication a quick, easy, and convenient way to request their next batch of medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can send your request any time of the day or night \u2013 no waiting for the practice to be open, no phone calls and no need for extra trips to the practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to request your medication<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You will need to <a href=\"\/2022\/03\/21\/meet-your-nhs-app\/\">download the NHS App<\/a>&nbsp;to your smartphone if you haven&#8217;t already done so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then follow the steps below or watch our screen-by-screen guide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NpRemBNmNqM?list=PLnhASgDToTkuPtdsIVQStTmgo4Bij5T4k\" title=\"How to request a repeat prescription in the NHS App\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Open the NHS App and make sure you are logged in.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tap <strong>Prescriptions<\/strong> on the NHS App homepage<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tap <strong>Request a repeat Prescription<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Check or choose your chosen pharmacy. Click <strong>Continue<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You can view your medicines and select any you would like to request.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tap <strong>Continue<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Check you are happy with the details, and tap <strong>Request prescription<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You can see what to do next and view the status of your requests<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NHS App gives people who take regularly prescribed medication a quick, easy, and convenient way to request their next batch of medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4284,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"resourcetype":[318,503],"resourcecategory":[158,504],"class_list":["post-2722","resources","type-resources","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","resourcetype-how-to","resourcetype-video","resourcecategory-how-to","resourcecategory-nhs-app"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-13 16:22:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"resourcetype","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources\/2722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/resources"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources\/2722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4282,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources\/2722\/revisions\/4282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"resourcetype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resourcetype?post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"resourcecategory","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfirstgp.com\/base-gp-practice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resourcecategory?post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}