About Us

Simon Carter is employed as a pharmacist by Hard To Find Medicines, a specialist pharmacy service who obtain, as the name implies, medicines that are hard to obtain from a typical pharmacy. We only undertake requests from holders of NHS prescriptions in UK, but as an NHS funded service, it is completely free to the patient to use this specialised medicines sourcing service, normal NHS prescription charges would apply. We are a team of pharmacists and technicians who work with many manufacturers and wholesalers to obtain any medicines that are not easily available, but obviously cannot always guarantee to obtain every requested product, but we will always endeavour to locate them if we can, and if we can't it would suggest they cannot be found anywhere within the UK, and you will probably need to inform your doctor, who of course can contact us for confirmation of the unavailability and for guidance on potential alternatives they might wish to consider prescribing. It is very interesting and rewarding work, most of the patients we deal with are rather distressed as they cannot obtain prescribed medicines they are generally depending on to keep them well, and the unavailability can be distressing so they are very happy when we inform them we can supply them, often within 24 hours.