Ideas & Opinions Is it ok for someone with bipolar to go off meds?

Is there another pharmacy? Also most pharmacies will do home delivery, would she not qualify for that with her old pharmacy?

That's a bit of curious statement as generally, a patient is able to choose from whatever pharmacy they wish to get their scripts from. There are a few exceptions to this such as having a nominated pharmacy for the electronic prescription service. But then, that can be easily changed anyway.

Puzzling that you were told this.

That is a trap that I've noticed which many can fall into for a multitude of conditions that a patient may be treated for. Because a patient "can't see a postive effect" they may feel that they no longer need their med(s) even though it's working away silently in the background to help keep things on an even level.

I'd say there is a disease but questions arise about whether it's being managed effectively.

She contacted another pharmacy, but they claimed they were unable to get at least one of her prescriptions.
I don't know. The old pharmacy is 32 miles away, if they do offer home delivery it may be out of range.

Her care coordinator apparently did make a request to the GP to contact the pharmacy, which they did, but the pharmacy is still refusing.

I composed an email asking her care coordinator to contact PALS and asked her to forward it to her care coordinator and she said she did forward it. A problem however is that she's already manic, and has sent many emails to her care coordinator with no replies so far. I think there's a good chance that this message will be ignored too.

Since she's manic now, there's very little that she can be reasonably expected to do on her own behalf, and (so far at least) I don't see any signs that her care coordinator will do any more for her.
I assumed it to be true rather than being told. In the US, you don't have to have a designated pharmacy, you can simply walk into any pharmacy and if you've got a prescription, they'll fill it. It's more common now for patients to be encouraged to designate a pharmacy and for the prescription to be sent electronically, but if you've got a paper prescription you can go anywhere without making any arrangements in advance.

So maybe the same thing is true in the UK, but this particular pharmacy is still refusing to fill the prescription?

@may71 are you sure that at the other pharmacy that the medication that they said was unavailable was just out of stock? They can normally order it in within a day or two.

I can ask her about trying the other pharmacy again. It may be difficult to work this out though while she is manic.

Thank you for the clarification; I now understand.

Can't this be resolved through the police?

She's frightened of the police, so I don't think she would contact them.