Try Your Pharmacy First

If you don’t pay for your prescriptions, you can get medicines for free from your local pharmacy without the need to visit your GP. Pharmacists are highly trained experts in medicines. The Pharmacy First scheme gives you quick, local access to advice and treatment from the pharmacist at your local pharmacy about common illnesses. You don’t need to wait to see your doctor and you don’t need an appointment. The Pharmacist will be able to give you medicines to treat the following conditions: Allergies, athlete’s foot, coldsores, constipation, coughs and colds, conjunctivitis, constipation, diarrhoea, earwax, fever, hay fever, headache, head lice, insect bites and stings, itching due to chickenpox, minor burns and scalds, mouth ulcers, nappy rash, piles, sore throat, sprains and strains, teething, threadworm, vaginal thrush and indigestion.