Which areas are covered by Pharmacy First? If you are registered with a Doctor’s Surgery in any of the following areas you may join the Pharmacy First Scheme: How do I get more Castle Marina, Riverside City Centre information on Meadows Pharmacy First? Radford If you have any comments you wish to make St Ann’s on the Pharmacy First Scheme or require more Clifton details of how the scheme works in Nottingham City please contact: Basford Aspley Tania Cook, Prescribing Team Nottingham City Primary Care Trust Old Basford 1 Standard Court Bobbers Mill Park Row Western Boulevard Nottingham NG1 6GN Sherwood Telephone: 0779 0003761 Sherwood Rise Email: [email protected] Victoria Why wait If you want to access health advice when your Strelley practice and your pharmacy are unavailable for a you can telephone NHS Direct who are available Woodborough Road 24 hours a day. Trained staff and nurses will Doctor’s Carlton Hill (City side) be available to help you over the telephone. Oakdale appointment? Carrington Snapewood Lenton Melbourne Park You may be New Basford NHS DIRECT able to get Wollaton Park Beechdale Telephone: 0845 4647 appropriate The confidential 24 hour helpline is Rise Park treatment from Top Valley staffed by qualified, experienced nurses Nottingham University and fully professional health information your pharmacy If in doubt check with your pharmacy advisors. sooner

To contact NHS Direct ring 0845 4647 or PHARMACY FIRST visit the website at www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk PHARMACY FIRST How does Pharmacy First work? Once you have registered, the pharmacist will talk with you and offer advice, and if appropriate treat you with the same medicines as your Doctor would have chosen. Are you or your children suffering How do I join the from: Pharmacy First scheme? What if I don’t want to use • Cystitis • Conjunctivitis Pharmacy First? • Hayfever • Earache If you go to any participating pharmacy in If you do not want to use Pharmacy First your Nottingham City, and ask to join the Pharmacy • Headlice • Constipation surgery will make an appointment in the normal First scheme the staff will be pleased to help way. • Sore Throat • Temperature you. Look out for the Pharmacy First sticker on • Teething Pain • Athlete’s foot the door, or a poster in store, which indicates What if the Pharmacist thinks I • Insect bites/stings • Diarrhoea that they are participating in the scheme. need to see the Doctor or Nurse? • Toothache • Threadworm The pharmacy staff will ask if you are exempt The Pharmacist will decide if they can treat you • Warts and veruccas • Haemorrhoids from prescription charges. If you are, then they or whether you should see a Doctor or Nurse. will ask to see the evidence you would normally • Fever • Vaginal Thrush If they think you need to see the Doctor or provide when you have a prescription from the You may be considering seeing your Doctor Nurse, the Pharmacist will provide you with a doctor. because of any of the above problems. referral slip for you to take to your surgery. They will then ask for your details, including This will indicate to your surgery that you have However- your name, address, postcode, date of birth already been to the pharmacy, and the reason Pharmacy First offers you the chance to see and the name of your doctor. All this informa- you have been referred to them. your pharmacist without an appointment tion will be added to a voucher book. You can and if necessary, get the same medicines your also register all the eligible members of your Doctor would have given you for the problems. family living at the same address as well. You Your Pharmacist is a qualified healthcare will be asked to sign the voucher book which professional who can help with your health you will be given to keep. problems. If you are a parent or guardian of a child (under Can I join Pharmacy First? 16 years old) you may register your child with a participating pharmacy, even if you pay for Yes, if you are registered with a doctor in prescriptions. He/She will need to be with you Nottingham City and you are exempt from when you see the pharmacist. prescription charges. If you pay for your prescriptions, the pharmacist Once you have registered with a pharmacy will still be able to help you with your health you are then free to use any of the pharmacies problems, but you will need to pay for any in Nottingham City whenever you need help, medicines supplied. No treatment can be advice or medicines for future health problems, provided for children of less than 3 months of which are covered under the Pharmacy First age under the scheme. Babies less than 3 months scheme. old should always be treated by their GP.

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