I need my medication sent to me
- About free drug delivery
- Delivery schedule
- Register for drug delivery
- Volunteer with the delivery team
About free drug delivery
Our volunteer-run, free drug delivery service started in June 2006 using a Subaru Justy and a team of volunteer drivers, coordinated by Vicky Belam. The community raised funds for a new car in 2010.
This service is for the 70% of our patients classed as ‘dispensing patients’ and means those rural patients who live more than a mile from the surgery and who receive their medication directly from us, rather than from the chemist.
To register, email the surgery at dispensary@exmoormc.nhs.uk or tick the relevant box below.
We deliver to your door if you genuinely need that service or to the local shops in Winsford, Exford and Withypool or the Auction Rooms at Wheddon Cross. If you request, we can leave the drugs in a sealed box that must be waterproof and child and animal proof or else with a designated neighbour. If you’re not there and none of these options are available, we return the prescription to the surgery and you will then have to make arrangements to have the drugs collected yourself.
Delivery schedule
Although we have a set route each day we have no set order for deliveries. It is up to each driver and depends on just who is getting deliveries that week, so one week you may get your drugs in the morning, but the next week it may be in the afternoon. In the event of flood, blizzard, earthquake, nuclear war or asteroid impact our regular delivery schedule may be interrupted, but we will do our best to let you know as soon as we can.
These schedules are likely to change from time to time, but we will let you know and post that information here.
MONDAY: BAMPTON – EXEBRIDGE – BRUSHFORD – OLDWAYS END – EAST ANSTEY – WESY KNOWLE – ANDREWS HILL
TUESDAY: MOREBATH – SKILGATE – UPTON – WITHIEL FLOREY – LUXBOROUGH – CUTCOMBE – WHEDDON CROSS – LUCKWELL BRIDGE – EXFORD – SIMONSBATH
WEDNESDAY: BROMPTON REGIS – EXTON – BRIDGETOWN – WINSFORD – WITHYPOOL – SANDYWAY – HAWKRIDGE
THURSDAY: RACKENFORD – OAKFORD – STOODLEIGH – ROACHILL – KNOWSTONE – MOLLAND – YEOMILL – WEST ANSTEY – CHILCOTT – MARSH BRIDGE – ASHWAY
FRIDAY: BURY – BROMPTON REGIS – WINSFORD – WHEDDON CROSS – CUTCOMBE – EXFORD
Register for drug delivery
Get your medicines delivered. It’s simple.
We offer free delivery of medication to all our dispensing patients. Dispensing patients are those who live more than a mile from the surgery and who pick up their medication from us, rather than the chemist.
There are three ways to register for this service:
1. Tick the relevant box on the Repeat Prescription order form on this website
2. Email dispensary@exmoormc.nhs.uk
3. Tell the surgery in person or by telephone
Once you have registered, we will contact you to confirm delivery arrangements.
Volunteer with the delivery team
Give something back and become a volunteer driver
We always want to hear from people who are interested in becoming volunteer drivers. This is a super way to become involved in our local community, see parts of the moor which no-one else ever gets to see and meet some truly extraordinary people.
Please email Vicky Belam on vicky47lb@aol.com to register your interest. (Please note, all specific queries about medication and delivery should be directed to the surgery. Vicky’s email address is only for those who wish to discuss volunteering or have suggestions about the service in general.)