Wasted medication

sir – Patients are asked to tick boxes to indicate what they need when ordering a repeat medication.

Nowadays, every time I collect a prescription I am given everything on the repeat prescription, even though I have not ticked the boxes and they are no longer required. I tell the dispensary that I do not need the extra medication but am told that it cannot be taken back once the order is in the paper bag.

No wonder the NHS is bust. Elizabeth Barclay

King’s Lynn, Norfolk

sir – We purchased our current house in May 2015.

The previous owners moved to France for several months to see if they liked it. I don’t know the outcome, but since then we have regularly received NHS letters and (presumed) testing packages addressed to them and their family. At first we returned everything, as advised on the envelope. Now, seven years later, it all goes in the bin. Andrew Aldridge

Cranage, Cheshire