Repeat prescription? Only order what you need.

Last year, you helped us prevent 65,000 medicines items from being wasted by ‘Only Ordering What You Need’.

With your help, we want to do this again. Why is this important?

• Unused medicines expire and might not work as we want them to

• Keeping big stocks of medicines at home can make drug shortages worse

• Big stocks of medicines at home can be a danger to children and pets

• Medicines are only prescribed for you and to be safe, should not be shared

• The best way to manage waste medicines, is to give them to your pharmacy. This helps stop medicines polluting our beautiful rivers and sea

• By only ordering what you need, you help the environment, because once medicines have left the pharmacy, they cannot be recycled or use by anyone else

   

To find out more, please visit nhsdorset.nhs.uk/yourmeds