DISPENSING
ELECTRONIC PRESCRIPTIONS
Belgrave Pharmacy offers the NHS Electronic Prescription Service, which allows you to choose or “nominate” our pharmacy to get your medicines or appliances from. Your GP then sends your prescription electronically to the place you have nominated, this means:
If you collect your repeat prescriptions from your GP you will not have to visit your GP practice to pick up your paper prescription, saving you time.
You can “nominate” our pharmacy by calling in today or completing the “nomination form”
REPEAT DISPENSING
MEDICINE CONTAINERS
NHS UNWANTED MEDICINES SERVICE
NHS HEALTH AND SELF CARE ADVICE
Our Pharmacist and highly trained staff are available for advice on all medicines and minor ailments, in private if required. We can also give you advice on how to live a healthy life, for example, advice on how to stop smoking or healthy diets. We can direct you to other sources of advice and assistance if we cannot help you ourselves.
NHS NEW MEDICINE 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 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; our pharmacist will give you details and offer this free NHS service, if this is available to you.
NHS SMOKING CESSATION
This pharmacy enhanced service is available to those who are considering quitting smoking. It involves providing advice, treatment plans and support from qualified pharmacy staff with the sole purpose of helping you quit smoking. Contact Belgrave Pharmacy today for more information on how to STOP smoking TODAY!
PATIENT MEDICATION RECORDS
Our computer allows us to keep records of all your prescriptions dispensed by us. This helps us check for possible problems, such as reactions between medicines and will help us deal with any queries you may have. We comply with the Data Protection Act and the NHS code of practice on confidentiality. If you want to discuss the records we keep, please ask to speak to the pharmacist..