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What is a blister pack and would do pharmacy do this weekly.Hi @Vikiann, you also need to contact your husbands GP as they are the ones who need to give the chemist weekly prescriptions for the blister pack. Without the extra income from weekly prescriptions chemists will not do blister packs as it would not be cost effective when they have to have extra staff to do them.
blister packs are the packs the tablets come in in foil and you have to dispense them. a dossett box which is also sometimes called a nomad is a tray with sealed boxes like an ice cube tray with boxes. the tablets for the morning are put in one section and labelled with days of the week. morning lunch tea and night. the pharmacist can do them and you just have to pop the box. my husband has 1 a week but gets delivered 4 for month so one tray a week. i used to put the tablets in a tray each week but this is easier.What is a blister pack and would do pharmacy do this weekly.
Asked about blister packs and they no longer offer this serviceblister packs are the packs the tablets come in in foil and you have to dispense them. a dossett box which is also sometimes called a nomad is a tray with sealed boxes like an ice cube tray with boxes. the tablets for the morning are put in one section and labelled with days of the week. morning lunch tea and night. the pharmacist can do them and you just have to pop the box. my husband has 1 a week but gets delivered 4 for month so one tray a week. i used to put the tablets in a tray each week but this is easier.
Wow, that's a lot of tablet sorting @canary !My OH has 23 tablets a day and the pharmacy will not do blister packs for him - Im not sure why, but it might be because one of his tablets is a low dose antibiotic that changes every 2 months. I understand how easy it is to get confused.
I use two wallets, each containing 7 dossett daily boxes for a days worth of drugs (morning and evening) and fill them up once a week from the carrier containing all the tablets as dispensed by the pharmacy. I make sure I do it at a time when I wont get interrupted (in my case, when the carer is getting OH washed and dressed). I have a printed list of all the tablets and how many are taken morning and evening. I set this beside all the dossett boxes for the week and put a ruler under the first tablet on the list. I then put this tablet in the appropriate spaces for the whole week going down the seven boxes for each tablet if there are more than one a day. Then I put that box taken from the carrier separately, move the ruler down to the next tablet and repeat. At the end there should be no boxes left in the carrier. I have found the trick is to be organised and the repetitive activity has become a routine. I also have to do it without interruptions.