In the run up to a bank holiday the importance of pharmacies and the reliance of the public on their services, especially dispensing services has never been more apparent.
Your local pharmacy plays a key role in providing quality healthcare to their patients. The pharmacists who work there use their clinical expertise along with their practical knowledge to ensure that there is a safe supply and use of medicines by patients and also 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.
Bank holidays are always appreciated by the British public, whether it is a long weekend, an extra day off work or just an opportunity to get away and visit friends and family. In the run up to a bank holiday the importance of pharmacies and the reliance of the public on their services, especially dispensing services has never been more apparent. While every other sector begins to wind down in the lead up to a bank holiday, booking Friday afternoons of work and planning weekend getaways, the pharmacy world begins to prepare for the onslaught that comes with a one or like this year’s Jubilee celebrations, two day closure.
A week or two before the planned bank holiday pharmacists start to worry about medicines running low and a feeling of panic begins. Surgeries decree they need an extra day to process repeat prescriptions and by the Friday evening before a bank holiday some pharmacy staff will start to crack as there is no sign of a prescription delivery. It is a very good thing that pharmacists are made of strong stuff and are able to cope with the fall out!
Take for example the bank holiday that just passed, the Queens Jubilee. On the Friday before the bank holiday a pharmacy would have a non-stop busy day from opening to closing. There would be waiting prescriptions, surgery collections, urgent deliveries and OTC queries. There would also piles and piles of prescriptions that need to be collected, a backlog of orders and also end of the month paperwork that would build up over the course of the day. One pre-registration trainee working at a pharmacy during the Jubilee holidays described his experience as “a baptism of fire”.
Your local pharmacy may provide an out of hours service. They may have extended opening hours, rota services and on-call services. If you are looking for a chemist open on Sundays or pharmacy open on bank holidays 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.
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