Pharmacy Services

NHS Pharmacy Services We Provide:

NHS Pharmacy First service

Our pharmacy can support you with seven common illnesses (see over for details) without needing a GP appointment

In the consultations with a pharmacist, people with symptoms suggestive of these seven conditions will be provided with advice and be supplied, where clinically necessary, with a prescription-only treatment or a pharmacy only medicine.

NHS Flu & COVID-19 Vaccination Service

For all eligible adult patients, including pregnant women

Pharmacy Contraception Service

If you’re already taking oral contraception (the pill) or looking for your first supply, you can arrange a confidential consultation at a local participating pharmacy.

This service is free for everyone, and you don’t need to be registered with a GP.

Hypertension Case-Finding Service

1. We are offering free NHS blood pressure checks to people aged 40 and over with no appointment necessary.
2. This involves around 10-15 minutes in the pharmacy consultation room with pharmacy staff. Following this, you may be invited to take home a blood pressure monitor that measures your blood pressure as you go about your daily life.

Essential services

1. Discharge Medicines Service: 

• • Hospitals refer patients who would benefit from extra guidance around prescribed medicines to us

2. Dispensing medicines
   • How to order a repeat prescription: https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/prescriptions/how-to-order-a-repeat-prescription/
3. Disposal of unwanted medicines
4. Healthy Living Pharmacies
   • Provision of a broad range of health promotion interventions through community pharmacies to meet local need, improving the health and wellbeing of the local population and helping to reduce health inequalities.
5. Support for self care
   • We manage minor ailments and common conditions, by the provision of advice and where appropriate, the sale of medicines, including dealing with referrals from NHS 111.
6. Repeat Dispensing and electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD)
   • We dispense repeat dispensing prescriptions (batch prescriptions) issued by a general practice
   • We ensure that each repeat supply is required; and
   • We seek to ascertain that there is no reason why the patient should be referred back to their general practice.
7. Dispensing appliances (e.g. stoma)
8. Signposting
   • NHS England will provide us with lists of sources of care and support in the area. We help people who ask for assistance by directing them to the most appropriate source of help.
9. Public health (promotion of healthy lifestyles)
   • Each financial year, we are required to participate in up to six health campaigns at the request of NHS England. This generally involves the display and distribution of leaflets provided by NHS England; see further details below.
   • In addition, we are required to undertake prescription-linked interventions on major areas of public health concern, such as encouraging smoking cessation