Prescription Ordering Direct Coventry (POD)
Local health planners recently asked for feedback about the Prescription Ordering Direct (POD), which operates in Coventry and part of Warwickshire
POD is used by the majority of GP practices in Coventry as the route for their patients to re-order repeat medication.
The local Integrated Care Board is considering if POD should continue as feedback about the service is not very good and a review has said it is not good value for money. A call for evidence recently closed.
Healthwatch Coventry has experience of POD from the time it was set up and regularly hears feedback from local people about the service.
Our Steering Group discussed the potential impact of closure for local people. We gathered together the other information we have and wrote a response which we sent to the ICB.
Information about what happens next is awaited.
