Renewal of prescription

Prescription renewal is necessary when a physician has prescribed a medicine for long-term or repeated use. Please request the renewal of your prescription when your medicine is running out or your prescription is about to expire.

You can request a prescription renewal in the following ways:

• During a physician’s or nurse’s appointment, for example in connection with a follow-up visit for a chronic illness.
• Digitally through the MyKanta service
• By requesting a renewal of your prescription from your own health and social services centre or a local clinic: call a physician’s or nurse’s telephone number at your centre or visit the service point in person.
• Through a pharmacy, in which case the pharmacy will forward the renewal request to whoever issued the prescription. The pharmacy may charge a fee for forwarding the renewal request.

Please note that the processing time for renewing an electronic prescription is eight days from the date of request.