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.