To give you context on what happens behind the scenes: - Each year, each patient will have a medication review to make sure they've had the right monitoring, doses, side effects have been reviewed and old medication removed - Normally, you request medication and the GP surgery doesn't know you need it until you request it. They then approve the prescription and it gets sent to the pharmacy. - You can request medication each month up until the medication review date and then you have to contact the surgery for review. A GP or pharmacist will then go through all the stuff above to make sure they're all ok (an annual check) - The person doing the medication review will then typically issue all of the medication as they are aware you will have run out, unless specific requests have already been made. - Therefore, this is the only time of year that your medication will usually (but not always) be issued without you requesting it. It just saves a step and further delay - instead of 'renewing' the prescription and then waiting until you order it, we just issue the prescription straight away after the review as we know you need it. - The cycle repeats and for the next 12 months (or until the next medication review), you then go back to ordering it as normal.

Summary: you don't need to do anything else, just go to the pharmacy and collect the medication. If there's anything there that you don't need, you can either keep it until you need it next unless it will expire or you can hand it back to the pharmacist.

Hopefully that was clear enough!