Chemists Opening on Sundays and Out of Hours

Almost anyone can go to their local pharmacy for advice and treatment if necessary. Children aged between 0-16 years can visit their local pharmacy if they are accompanied by their parent or guardian and also get advice and treatment. The pharmacists at your local pharmacy use their clinical expertise along with practical knowledge to ensure a safe supply of medicines to patients and also ensure that dispensed medicines are used safely and in the correct manner. As well as dispensing services your local pharmacy can offer you general information on health care and expert advice and information on a lot of common ailments like coughs and colds, stomach upsets, minor eye infections and hay-fever to name but a few.

You can visit your local pharmacy without a prescription or a visit to your GP and under the Minor Ailment Service and pharmacist can help with the following conditions:

• Head Lice
• Earache
• Eczema and Allergies
• Hay fever
• Sore Throat
• Thread worms
• Warts and Verrucas

You can use the Minor Ailment Service if you are registered with a GP surgery in Scotland, and you are under 16 or under 19 and in full-time education; you are 60 or over; You have a valid maternity exemption certificate, medical exemption certificate, or war pension exemption certificate; you get Income Support, Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance, Income-related Employment and Support Allowance, or Pension Credit Guarantee Credit, or you are named on, or entitled to, an NHS tax credit exemption certificate or a valid HC2 certificate. You can find out more about this service by visiting your local pharmacy. By using this service you make your local pharmacy your first point of call for advice and free treatment rather than your GP. In many cases you do not even need to make an appointment and can visit at a time that suits you.

Many local pharmacies now offer and out of hours service. This means that they have extended opening hours, on-call services and rota services. If you are looking for a chemist open on Sunday you are now able to do this due to this out of hour’s service. There is now a rota of duty chemists in each area of the country who open their pharmacy out of normal opening hours to allow prescription medicine to be dispensed. 

Pharmacy out of hours service

Your local pharmacy plays a key role in providing quality healthcare to patients.  The pharmacists working there use their clinical expertise together with their practical knowledge to ensure that there is a safe supply and use of medicines by patients and members of the public.  As well as dispensing prescriptions your local pharmacy offers expert advice and also information on many common ailments such as coughs and colds, hay-fever, stomach upsets, minor eye infections and many more.  They can also offer you general information on healthcare.

Children aged between 0-16 years can go to a pharmacy accompanied by their parent or guardian for advice and treatment if necessary. This can be done without the need for a prescription or a visit to your local GP.  Under the Minor Ailment Service a pharmacist can help children with the following conditions:

•             Head Lice

•             Earache

•             Eczema and Allergies

•             Hay fever

•             Sore Throat

•             Threadworms

•             Warts and Verrucas

The Minor Ailment Service allows for individuals to be registered with their local pharmacy and use it as their first port of call for advice and free treatment for a range of conditions.  In many cases you will not have to make an appointment and can visit at a time that suits you.  You can use the Minor Ailment Service if you are registered with a GP surgery in Scotland, and you are under 16 or under 19 and in full-time education; you are 60 or over; You have a valid maternity exemption certificate, medical exemption certificate, or war pension exemption certificate; you get Income Support, Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance, Income-related Employment and Support Allowance, or Pension Credit Guarantee Credit, or you are named on, or entitled to, an NHS tax credit exemption certificate or a valid HC2 certificate.  Visit your local pharmacy to find out more about this service.

Your local pharmacy may also provide and out of hours service.  They have extended opening hours, rota services and on-call services.  If you are looking for a chemist open on Sundays you are now able to do this due to the out of hours service.  Each area of the country has a rota of duty chemists who open the pharmacy out of normal opening hours to allow prescription medicine to be dispensed.  They also dispense over the counter remedies like cold and flu medicines.  There are an increasing number of 24 hour and midnight pharmacies offering this service as well as chemists opening on Sundays.  If you are searching for a chemist open on Sunday then visit www.lawtonpharmacy.com This site provides a list of chemist locations and their opening hours.

Late Night Chemist In Uxbridge

A pharmacy or chemist is a source of healthcare services, advice and information available without an appointment.  Pharmacists are experts in medicines and how they work and they and their staff can help you with a wide range of health matters.

The services available from PCT pharmacies include:

·     Dispensing medicines – and advising you on how to get use them safely and effectively.

·     Disposal of unwanted medicines – any out of date or unwanted medicines can be taken to the pharmacy for safe disposal.

·     Advising you on how to treat minor ailments – often a consultation area is available if you wish to discuss something in private. In addition some pharmacies can provide prescription treatments for conjunctivitis, cystitis, and impetigo without you having to see your doctor.

·     Emergency Hormonal Contraception – the “Morning After Pill” – is available, and from some pharmacies it is free of charge if you are under 20 years of age.

·      Support to Stop Smoking – all pharmacies can give you help and advice about “giving up”, and as well as selling you nicotine replacement products, some pharmacies have Support to Stop advisors who are specially trained to help you quit.

·     Access to your medicines – if you have difficulty with the form or packaging, or have other special requirements they can help.

·     Repeat Dispensing – a new type of prescription is available that allows you to have a “set” of prescriptions at the pharmacy, and saves the need to visit the surgery for repeats every time.

·     Medicines Use Review – this is a free service to review your medication with you in a consultation area, an opportunity to discuss the purpose, dose, and side-effects of your drugs, so that you get the most benefit from them.

·     Direct you to find other places of healthcare such as local surgeries, minor injury and walk-in centres, family planning clinics, dentists, and local support groups.

Now I am sure we have all been in a situation where we find ourselves in need of a certain repeat prescription, medication or pain relief out of the normal opening hours of a chemist.  In the UK today there are thousands of pharmacies serving their local areas and many of these open the pharmacy out of normal opening hours to allow for these small emergencies we all encounter from time to time.  There are an increasing number of pharmacies opening until midnight or even 24 hours.

If you are looking for a late night chemist in Uxbridge then Lawton Pharmacy is the one for you.  They are open until 9pm daily and are part of a small family run chain which was founded in 2002 by Yogesh Patel.  The company has grown from strength to strength over the last 9 years.