The nurse fixed me with a disapproving stare: ‘Why is there such a gap between these prescriptions?’
I had gone for a blood pressure check so I could get my HRT, but when she looked at my notes she could see that they last prescribed it years ago.
In return for countless thousands of pounds of national insurance my parents got my mother’s phone charged
The honest answer to her question was simple: ‘Because you were working from home.’ For this was the nurse who, when I last tried to get HRT from an NHS GP, was WFH.
During lockdown, I was told to buy a blood pressure machine online and send in a week of readings before they would repeat my prescription. The readings were high, as it happened, but they didn’t respond until I chased them, whereupon they told me the readings were of no interest, and they dispensed the medication anyway.
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