Prescribing Medication

1. Prescribing Medicines Consultation

The Health and Social Care ALLIANCE, is submitting a response to the Scottish Government’s consultation ‘Achieving value and sustainability in prescribing medication’. 

 

This survey is to assist us in understanding what matters to you when you are using prescriptions. Your insights are invaluable in helping us to understand patient voices to enhance the prescription service.

 

This survey will take approximately 10 minutes to complete. Your responses will enable us to better understand your experiences and preferences with prescription medicines.

 

We appreciate your time and thoughtful feedback.

 

Privacy Statement

The Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE) wants to hear from people currently accessing receiving medicines prescriptions, for themselves, or someone they care for, to inform the Scottish Government’s consultation ‘Achieving value and sustainability in prescribing medication’. The survey has 17 questions and should take no more than 5-10 minutes to complete. 

Should you wish to respond, you will be asked questions of a sensitive and personal nature such as your experience with receiving prescription medicines and this information will be captured in our consultation submission to Scottish Government, which they may share with other interested parties and made public.  The ALLIANCE may also use this information in relevant ALLIANCE reports and reference on social media. 

Responses will not be attributed to specific individuals and will be completely anonymous but will be collated to provide statistical information.

Once the information has been made public, it will be accessible worldwide and remain public permanently.

You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.  However, you must note that should you withdraw your consent after information has been processed the ALLIANCE will not be able to remove your information from the analysis.

You also have the right to object to how we process your personal information, the right to access, correct, sometimes delete and restrict the personal and sensitive personal information we use.  

Together with the right to receive your information in a machine-readable format for transfer to another organisation and not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling.

The ALLIANCE is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected.  The personal data in the consultation response is being collected for the purposes as stated above.

The ALLIANCE and its sub-contractors will not distribute or disclose your personal information to third parties unless we have your written permission or are required by law to do so. We comply with the Data Protection Act 2018 and GDPR 2018 when handling your personal information. If you have any concerns about how we use your personal information, contact the Data Protection Officer at: DPO@alliance-scotland.org.uk. Alternatively, you have the right to complain to the ICO https://ico.org.uk/concerns/  For our full privacy policy, please visit our website.

By participating in this survey you are consenting to us processing your personal information for the above purposes, which is our legal basis for processing your personal information.

For more information on the Smart Survey Privacy Policy visit: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/privacy-policy

 

 

1. Are you completing this survey for yourself, or are you a carer or relative of the person who receives prescription medications?

 

The medications affected by this consultation include:

·       Co-proxamol 

·       Glucosamine and Chondroitin      

·       Herbal treatments   

·       Homeopathy 

·       Minocycline for acne          

·       Aliskiren        

·       Bath and shower emollients         

·       Dipipanone    

·       Doxazosin modified release preparation 

·       Lutein and antioxidants      

·       Nefopam       

·       Omega 3 fatty acids excluding icosapent ethyl [Vazkepa®]

·       Oxycodone and Naloxone combination product 

·       Paracetamol and Tramadol combination product         

·       Perindopril arginine  

·       Probiotics      

·       Rubefacients and Poultices          

·       Alimemazine 

·       Amiodarone  

·       Ascorbic acid 

·       Buprenorphine patches      

·       Cloral hydrate         

·       Dosulepin      

·       Dronedarone 

·       Immediate release Fentanyl         

·       Lidocaine Plasters   

·       Liothyronine  

·       Trimipramine 

·       Blood glucose monitoring strips (costing more than £10 per 50 strips)          

·       Insulin pen needles (costing more than £5 per 100 needles)  

·       Antimicrobial stewardship

2. How often do you take these medications?

 

3. Are these over-the-counter or prescribed by your doctor?

 

4. How effective are your current medications in managing your long-term condition(s)?

 

5. If one of your current prescriptions was removed, how would it impact your condition or daily life? 

 

6. Do you feel that all your current prescriptions are necessary for managing your condition? If no, which prescriptions do you think might be unnecessary and why? 

 

7. Are there any alternative treatments or lifestyle changes that you believe could replace your current prescriptions? If yes, please describe them. 

 

8. How often do you review your medication regimen with your healthcare provider to ensure all prescriptions are still necessary?

 

9. Have you ever discontinued a prescribed medication on your own? If yes, what were the reasons and what was the outcome? 

 

10. When you have a positive experience with your prescription medications, what are the things that make it good? 

 

11. In your experience, how well does the current prescription service accommodate your individual needs and preferences? 

 

12. Have the costs of medications ever prevented you from accessing your prescribed treatment?

 

13. Would you prefer to access your prescription medications differently? If yes, please describe your preferred methods. 

 

14. Do you feel adequately informed about the prescription medications service? If no, please describe the information you feel is lacking. 

 

15. How easy is it for you to access your prescribed medications?

 

16. Does having prescribed medicines help you keep to your medication regimen? If so, why?

 

17. Feel free to express any additional comments, suggestions, or insights that align with what matters to you and could contribute towards the understanding of prescription medication experience in Scotland.