Reminder for Tower Hamlets residents self-isolating not to go to pharmacies

Tower Hamlets residents who have been advised to self-isolate by Track and Trace, or a household contact of a COVID-19 positive patient, should not go to a pharmacy, but arrange for prescriptions to be delivered to them instead.

If you need to collect your prescription, you should do the following:

• Ask family, friends, or a carer to collected your prescription, provided they too have not been advised to self-isolate;
• Contact the NHS Volunteer Responders Programme which supports all shielding, self-isolating, and/or otherwise vulnerable patients by calling 0808 196 3646; or
• Ask your pharmacy or dispensing doctor to arrange delivery where neither of the above is possible.

Home Delivery Services during the COVID-19 outbreak are commissioned throughout England from community pharmacies (and from dispensing doctors) to ensure delivery of medicines to eligible patients who should not present in the pharmacy. 

To learn more about ordering prescriptions if you are self-isolating click here