Going to your local pharmacy offers an easy and convenient way to get clinical advice.
Pharmacists are qualified healthcare professionals and can offer clinical advice and medicines for all sorts of minor ailments.
Your local pharmacist can also offer treatment and provide some prescription medicine for seven conditions, if appropriate, without the need for a GP appointment or prescription.
The pharmacist will offer you advice, treatment or refer you to a GP or another healthcare professional if needed.
They can also give advice about medicines. This includes how to use your medicine, worries about side effects or any other questions you have.
Pharmacists can offer advice on a range of minor illnesses, such as
• Sore throat
• Cough
• Diarrhoea
• Skin / Rash issues
• Hay Fever
Pharmacists are qualified healthcare professionals and can offer clinical advice and medicines for all
sorts of minor ailments, with a same day consultation at a time that suits you.
If they cannot help you themselves, they can refer you to a GP or other health professional.
Click here for more information on minor illness care.
Please complete the digital triage to see if your condition is appropriate for self referral or submit an online form
Pharmacist can also offer treatment and some prescription medicine for some conditions, without you needing to see a GP (this is called Pharmacy First). Conditions they can treat as part of Pharmacy First are:
Earache (aged 1 to 17 years).
Impetigo (aged 1 year and over)- a contagious skin infection.
Infected insect bites (aged 1 year and over).
Shingles (aged 18 years and over)- infection that causes a painful rash.
Sinusitis (aged 12 years and over)- infection of the sinuses (behind the forehead, cheeks and nose).
Sore throat (aged 5 years and over).
Urinary tract infections or UTIs (women aged 16 to 64 years).
If you are not within these age ranges, a pharmacist can still offer advice, but you may need to see a GP for treatment.
Please note on weekends online self-referral may take longer as the practice is closed and will not look at your assessment till we are open, for quicker response please walk into your local pharmacy.
Find a Pharmacy near you
Use this service to request a limited emergency supply of a medicine you’ve completely run out of.
This must be a medicine you are prescribed regularly, through a repeat prescription.
You will be charged your usual prescription fee. If you do not usually pay, it will be free.
When not to use this service:
If you need medicine and also have any symptoms, call 111 and speak to an adviser instead.
You cannot use this service to get:
-antibiotics for a new or recent problem
-controlled drugs that require identification to collect
Click to request an emergency prescription
You may be able to get the contraceptive pill from a pharmacy if you need to
• start the contraceptive pill for the first time
• take the contraceptive pill again after a break from using it
If you already have a prescription for the contraceptive pill, you can use the prescription as usual.
Or you can get the pill from a pharmacy without a prescription if you prefer.
Find a pharmacy that offers the contraceptive pill without a prescription
You can get a free blood pressure checked at a pharmacy without seeing a GP, if you:
• are aged 40 or over
• live in England
You cannot get a free blood pressure check if you:
• already have high blood pressure
• have had your blood pressure checked by a healthcare professional in the past 6 months
Some pharmacies offer a free blood pressure check.
Find a pharmacy that offers free blood pressure checks
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Rest assured GPs are on your side. Find out more at GPs Are On your Side (bma.org.uk)
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