We provide an NHS blood pressure check service. Monitoring your blood pressure as you get older is important as high blood pressure can lead to strokes and cardio-vascular problems.

Check your blood pressure

The only way of knowing whether you have high blood pressure is to have a blood pressure test.

All adults over 40 are advised to have their blood pressure checked at least every 5 years. Getting this done is easy and could save your life.

You can get your blood pressure tested at a number of places, including at our pharmacies. If you've not been diagnosed with high blood pressure and would like to get yours checked, contact or visit one of our branches. 

If we find any potential signs of high blood pressure, we will refer you to your GP for further investigation and treatment if appropriate.

We dispense both NHS and private prescriptions. Our service is fast and efficient including advice on how to get the most benefit from your medicines. We also guarantee to beat any private prescription quote from any pharmacy store.

You can return all unwanted medicines to our pharmacies and we will dispose them for you safely. This is a free NHS service.

We can order and collect your prescriptions from your GP. Your medicines can be made ready for you to collect from the pharmacy when it is convenient for you or delivered to your doorstep. You can order your prescriptions online, by email, by phone or by using our Free Prescription Phone Order Line.

You will be given access to support from trained pharmacists and support staff who can give advice and support to help you to stop smoking, reduce your weight, increase physical activity or reduce your alcohol intake, if appropriate. You will also receive some tips on how best to manage your condition.

We can advise on medical requirements for travellers, including anti-malaria treatments, avoiding sunburn and tummy upsets.

This confidential medicines check-up will help you to find out more about your medicine, identify any problems you may be having with taking your medicines as intended and help you to take your medicine/s to best effect. This is available as a free NHS Service.

The pharmacy will help support independent living for vulnerable people, or those with special needs who may experience problems with medicine taking and who do not fall within the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 criteria. The pharmacy will assess the patient’s knowledge and use of their medicines and, based on the information gathered, will invite the patient or their carer to discuss the different types of support available to help the patient take their medicines as intended. They will then jointly come to an agreement about the best support for that patient. The kind of support could include medicines reminder charts, medication administration record (MAR) charts, labelling medicines in larger fonts and multi-compartment compliance aids (these have the days of the week written on them to help ensure the medicine is taken on the correct day and at the correct time).

The pharmacy can provide advice and support for the treatment of a minor ailment that you may have. This includes being able to supply medicines or appliances (medical devices) at NHS expense, without the need for you to go and get a prescription from your GP first. The pharmacy may just provide advice about what you can do to help with the symptoms, or they may supply an over-the-counter medicine to treat the minor ailment, or, where appropriate, refer you to another healthcare professional. The local NHS may require the pharmacy to satisfy certain criteria before this free service can be provided to patients.

The Electronic Prescription Service is a NHS service that allows your GP to send your prescription directly to the pharmacy electronically .Our pharmacies are equipped to receive NHS prescriptions electronically from your GP.

Repeat dispensing enables pharmacists to dispense regular medicines to suitable patients, according to an agreed protocol, without the direct involvement of the GP surgery on each occasion a repeat medicine is required. This is available as a free NHS service.

When you are prescribed a medicine to treat a long-term condition for the first time, the pharmacist will support you to use the medicine safely and to best effect. The pharmacist will talk to you approximately one-two weeks after you first receive the medicine to see how you are getting on with it and to discuss any problems you may have. A second follow-up will be a month after you first receive the medicine. The service is only available to people using certain medicines. In some cases where there is a problem apparent and a solution cannot be found between you and the pharmacist, you will be referred back to your doctor. This is available as a free NHS service.

The pharmacy can provide advice and support to both residents and staff within a care home by entering into an agreement to do so. This service aims to ensure the proper and effective ordering of medicines and appliances (medical devices) and their clinical and cost effective use. The pharmacy can also provide guidance on the safe storage, supply and administration (along with accurate record keeping) of the medicines and appliances used in the care home.

This free NHS service is designed to provide support and advice to people who want to give up smoking. You may also have access to a stop smoking adviser who can assist you in creating your own personalised stop smoking plan. The pharmacy may supply appropriate stop smoking medicines and aids as required and may also refer you to other specialist services if your they think it is necessary.

Our pharmacist will supervise the consumption of prescribed medicines at the point the medicine is handed to the patient to ensure that the correct dose is taken. The service is frequently used to support people taking medicines daily to manage substance misuse problems, but could be used for other medicines such as medicines to treat tuberculosis. This is a user-friendly, non-judgemental service, and includes the provision of support and advice about your specific medicine. Supervised Consumption to manage substance misuse problems is currently a free NHS Service.