If you’re prescribed a medicine to treat a long-term condition for the first time, you may be able to get some advice about your medicine from your pharmacist through a free scheme called the New Medicine Service (NMS).
Patients often have problems when they start a new medicine. As part of the scheme, the pharmacist will support you over a few weeks to use the medicine safely and to best effect.
The service is only available to people using certain medicines. In some cases where there’s a problem and a solution cannot be found between you and the pharmacist, you will be referred back to your GP.
It is estimated that 5.5 million people have undiagnosed hypertension in the UK. High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, does not often have symptoms but can lead to more serious problems like cardiovascular disease. We can help with early detection and treatment of hypertension, as well as offer advice to help you maintain a healthy heart.
Did you know that high blood pressure affects around a third of adults in the UK? Or that high blood pressure causes over 20% of heart attacks and 50% of strokes?
Many people do not realise they have high blood pressure until it is too late.
The Think Pharmacy First scheme allows you to receive treatment for certain minor health issues directly from our pharmacy colleagues with no GP visit required!
The Think Pharmacy First scheme is an NHS service designed to help you manage minor ailments, such as colds, sore throats, and many other conditions, by visiting your local pharmacy instead of a GP. You can walk into any Parkside Pharmacy and receive over-the-counter medication and advice for certain conditions, all without the need for a GP referral
Medicines can be supplied free of charge if you are exempt from NHS prescription charges.
There’s no need to try stopping on your own, with the FREE NHS Stop Smoking service available in our pharmacies, you can discuss your goals with a trained pharmacy colleague, who will be able to offer advice on the best way to achieve them.
We know quitting smoking is no easy task, so we offer expert advice, support and a range of products in store to help.
Self-control alone may not be enough to help you stop smoking straightaway, which is completely fine, you may be able to get help from Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT). Nicotine Replacement Therapy is an effective way to help you get started, by managing your cravings and supporting your addiction.
This service allows our trained pharmacists to
This service allows patients with greater choice and access when considering continuing their current form of OC and choice from where people can access contraception services.
If you’ve had unprotected sex, or your usual method of contraception has failed, you might be worried about becoming pregnant. One of the options available to you may be the morning after pill, which works by preventing or delaying ovulation.
Though often called the morning after pill, it can actually be taken up to five days after unprotected sex, depending on which type of pill you take. The sooner you take the morning after pill, the greater the chances of avoiding pregnancy.
The morning after pill is intended for emergency use and shouldn’t be used on a regular basis.
Have your medication dispensed into a weekly medipack, a 7 day sealed plastic tray, this system can help you, your family or a carer keep track of your medication and when you need to take it.
There are compartments labelled Monday to Sunday and Morning, Lunch, Evening and Night.
The medipacks can be used to simplify a medicine regimen, to facilitate adherence or self–administration for a person who struggles to adhere to taking their medicines because they cannot remember to do so or because the medicines schedule is too complex for them to manage. Working with the GP and patient this will be set up individually to the patients requirement and either delivered or available to collect weekly. The pharmacy will also look after the ordering of the medication.
Flu vaccinations are offered every year through the NHS to help protect people at risk of getting seriously ill from flu. If you are not eligible for an NHS flu vaccination then you can pay and get this privately at our pharmacies.