General information, not an individual diagnosis. Ask a healthcare professional if you are unsure about your situation.
Your prescriber or pharmacist may direct you to a hospital pharmacy to collect a medicine already prescribed. In France, ‘rétrocession’ concerns dispensing to the public through a hospital’s pharmacy for internal use; the patient is not necessarily hospitalised.
This route concerns certain medicines. Ask the team to confirm the hospital pharmacy where you should collect your treatment.
The French pharmacists’ order describes distribution, dispensing or administration constraints, or particular monitoring of prescribing or dispensing.
Show the prescription to the professional and ask which medicines follow the specified hospital collection route. Confirm each route before travelling.
Before travelling, contact the service specified to check the exact location, collection hours, documents required and whether dispensing has been arranged. Keep the prescription and the professional’s directions. This article does not confirm any local opening hours or stock.
If collection cannot take place as planned, ask the team what should happen next with your prescriber. Do not choose a replacement or a different dispensing location on your own. The aim is to continue the same care route with confirmed arrangements.
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