is he allowed to get the medicine from a pharmacy or such for himself? what does his doctor say? Though I've been hearing lots of stories about the health care service in the UK. Now I understand better why they dont want to allow my mom in. Old age care sux.
It's a nanny state. You need a script for just about anything we, in ZA, can buy over the counter at self help. LoL, you're not even allowed to buy more than 1 pack of paracetamol at a time even. So you can't even buy your neighbour a pack if you need one yourself. Unless you drive to another store or pharmacy.
Anti inflammatory drugs. A big no-no. Here we can buy some schedule 2 drugs over the counter.
Bactroban or similar creams - not without a script.
My mother bumped her leg, and it formed a sore, so she went to dr, thinking they'd give her stuff to apply.
Oh no, she had to go in, three times a week for a nurse to change the dressing. And a sore that was the size of a 20c coin became the size of her palm (mom's hands are a little bigger than mine) over months. They were applying honey, then putting over some other thing, then closing it up.
Eventually stepdad came to ZA, for work, he bought some bactrobqn antibiotic cream. Mom used it for nearly 2 weeks and the sore on her leg sore healed in less than 2 weeks.