Late Night Local Pharmacy Services

Sep 28
07:21

2012

mehboob talukdar

mehboob talukdar

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Your local pharmacy and their pharmacists and chemists play a vital role in providing quality healthcare to patients in their local area.

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Pharmacists use their clinical expertise and their practical knowledge to ensure the safe supply and use of medicines to their patients and also members of the public. Pharmacists have to be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) and have to have worked for at least a year under the supervision of a qualified as well as experienced pharmacist in either a hospital or a community pharmacy.

 

There are numerous services offered to you by your local pharmacy some are listed below:

 

  • Emergency contraception
  • Truss fittings
  • Incontinence supplies
  • Needle exchange and supervised drug administration
  • Pregnancy testing
  • Stop smoking services
  • Medicines use reviews
  • New medicine service (available from October 1 2011)
  • Chlamydia screening and treatment
  • Weight management

 

Your local pharmacy is more than equipped to offer you advice on different common problems such as coughs and colds,Late Night Local Pharmacy Services Articles aches and pains, stopping smoking services and healthy eating and can also help you make a decision as to whether you need to see a doctor or not. You can also rest assured in the knowledge that everything you discuss with your pharmacist is in confidence. This means that you can talk to them about the most personal of problems and even better you will not need to make an appointment to do this, as you would with your GP. Most pharmacies now have a private consultation area where you can discuss issues with pharmacy staff without being overheard by other people in the pharmacy at the time.

 

Children aged between 0-16 years can also go to a pharmacy, if they are 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.

 

Your local chemist may also provide late night chemist service. They will have extended opening hours, rota services and on-call services. If you are looking for a late night chemist or 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 are also able to dispense over the counter medicines like cold and flu remedies. There are an increasing number of 24 hour and late night chemists offering this service as well as chemists opening on Sundays.