Discover the latest healthcare innovation with the Pharmacy First service, launched on January 31, 2024. Building on the NHS Community Pharmacist Consultation Service, this new initiative empowers community pharmacies to provide comprehensive care for seven common conditions through defined clinical pathways.

🌟 Benefits of Pharmacy First:
- Addresses seven common conditions like earache, sore throat, and urinary tract infections.
- Frees up GP appointments, ensuring patients with urgent needs receive timely care.
- Offers quicker and more convenient access to safe, high-quality healthcare.
- Direct access to certain prescription medications from pharmacies, reducing delays in treatment.

👩‍⚕️ How it Works:
- Patients can access the service through referrals from general practice, urgent and emergency care settings, and NHS 111.
- Direct access for the seven common conditions without the need for a referral by visiting or contacting the pharmacy directly.

🏥 Conditions Managed and Age Ranges:
- Acute otitis media: 1 to 17 years
- Impetigo: 1 year and over
- Infected insect bites: 1 year and over
- Shingles: 18 years and over
- Sinusitis: 12 years and over
- Sore throat: 5 years and over
- Uncomplicated urinary tract infections: Women 16-64 years

🌐 Community Pharmacies - Your Convenient Healthcare Hub:
- Beyond prescription services, community pharmacies offer support with healthy living, smoking cessation, blood pressure monitoring, contraception, and vaccinations.
- Over 90% of patients report receiving good advice from community pharmacies, as per a public perceptions survey.

Join the healthcare revolution and access timely, convenient, and quality care with Pharmacy First. Your well-being matters, and we're here to make healthcare accessible when you need it.














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