What your Pharmacist can do for you

Pharmacists are highly skilled and trained professionals. Your local pharmacist can answer questions you may have about choosing and using the right medicine, provide easy to understand advice on treating everyday illnesses, and will help you decide if you need to see a GP.

• Sell non-prescription medicines such as painkillers, thrush treatments, indigestion remedies.
• Give advice on the best way to take your medicines,both prescribed and bought.
• Advise and supply women requiring Emergency Hormonal Contraception.
• Dispense prescriptions.
• Give advice on healthy living including exercise and diet.
• Smoking cessation advice.
• Hold records of your medicines to allow safety of future medications (both rescribed and bought) to be checked.
• Provide a private area where you can discuss sensitive issues.
• Provide advice via the telephone.

Many pharmacies also provide:

	Advice on travel health

	Pregnancy testing

	Collection and delivery of prescriptions

	Oxygen supply

	Supervised methadone supply

	Needle exchange

	Advice on herbal medicines

	Flu immunisation