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Stop pharmacies asking for name/address in public before releasing prescription

Submitted on Saturday 30th December 2023

Rejected on Wednesday 24th January 2024

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

Petition Action

Stop pharmacies asking for name/address in public before releasing prescription

Petition Details

Stop chemist and pharmacy staff asking you to reveal your name address in public areas before handing over your prescription. Surely this is a privacy issue.

Additional Information

In some cases, asking people to reveal their personal details in a public area could be considered a breach of privacy. We are advised to shred our personal correspondence before disposing of them to reduce the risk of identity theft, but yet we are told to give out our details in public before we receive our much needed medication.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

We can only accept petitions about things the Government or Parliament are directly responsible for.

Decisions about how to check a person's identity before providing a prescription are a matter for individual pharmacies and the relevant regulator, not the UK Government or Parliament.

If you are concerned about the practice of a pharmacy, you should raise your concerns with them directly.

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