S2 Ep378: What’s On Offer at Your Local Community Pharmacy These Days…

If you have walked in to your local Community Pharmacy recently or even over the last couple of years you may have noticed that there is a lot more on offer than just picking up your prescriptions and some general medication like headache tablets.  So for this week’s check in with Glasgow based Pharmacist Elizabeth Roddick we find out about how your local community Pharmacy has changed over the years and what they are now able to offer you too. Elizabeth began by telling our Toby Davey about the changes that have happened in the Pharmacy in the last few years and an outline of what Pharmacy staff are able to offer you when you walk through the door, with some differences depending which nation you might live in.Then to how things may link up between your local community Pharmacy and your local GP For more about Pharmacy First in England do visit -https://www.england.nhs.uk/primary-care/pharmacy/pharmacy-services/pharmacy-first/And for Pharmacy First in Scotland do visit -https://www.gov.scot/publications/nhs-pharmacy-first-scotland-information-patients/# To get in touch with Elizabeth you can email [email protected] or for more information visit - https://elizabethroddick.comImage: Picture showing Elizabeth standing in her pharmacy, dressed in her white pharmacist coat and a colourful bandana around her neck, she's smiling. Warmly at the camera with her hands slightly raised.