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.
