Your local pharmacy can help
You may not always need to see a doctor or get a prescription. Local pharmacies offer many of the same services local GPs do.
Your local pharmacy can provide confidential, expert advice and treatment for a range of minor illnesses. They have private consultation rooms and you don’t need to make an appointment.
Pharmacies can help with:
Allergies, athlete's foot, insect bites and stings, common cold, cold sores, conjunctivitis. constipation, coughs, cystitis, decongestants, diarrhoea, dry skin, earache, earwax, fever (children and adults), flu, haemorrhoids, hayfever, headaches and migraines, heartburn and indegestion, mouth ulcers, nappy rash, oral thrush, pain, scabies, sore throat, sprains and strains, sunburn, teething, threadworms, thrush, uti (water infection), and warts and verrucas.
Other benefits from your pharmacy
You don’t need to make an appointment to see your pharmacist.
Your local pharmacy will have a consultation room allowing for privacy.
By visiting a pharmacist first, it helps to make more GP and emergency appointments available for people with more complex healthcare needs.
Many illnesses can be treated with over-the-counter medicines and advice from your pharmacy.
A pharmacist will signpost you quickly to the right medical care if you have anything more serious.
A pharmacist can advise on how long you can expect to experience symptoms for.
And, if symptoms suggest it’s something more serious, pharmacists have the right training to make sure patients get the help they need.
