Kidney Patient Guide

There are one and a half GP's in the practice. The other one is part time, semi retired, and married to the other one! I'm hoping that the one I've been seeing will retire soon as well. The practice was put into Special Measures recently following an inspection, it's just been taken off the Special ...

I dread to think of the drug hassles I'll have post transplant. My GP has never voluntarily given me a prescription for anything. Every single one has involved a battle. She changed one of my drugs without telling either me or my consultant, she just sent an amended prescription to the pharmacy elec...

It goes on. Returned to the GP today, armed with a letter from my consultant. She still refuses point blank to prescribe the sevelamer, she became quite angry and accused me of wasting her time with my persistent demands for phosphate binders. I spoke to the pharmacy, who say they do have other pati...

Hi everyone, my account on here got frozen, but I've just re-registered with an extra number 2 on my username! I've been taking phosphate binders for a good ten years or so (at least) currently I'm taking Renvela (Sevelamer Carbonate). My GP has announced that she will no longer prescribe it, she te...