Common Ailments Scheme

Pharmacist

Furnace House Surgery has recruited a highly skilled pharmacist who can deliver safe, high quality, effective and efficient care to patients.  As experts in medicines and their use, they play a crucial role in supporting patients to take those medications as part of a shared decision making process, as well as ensuring patients get the right medications.

Having a pharmacist as part of the clinical team within a practice can relieve work pressure on GPs to free up time for the GP to spend with patients with complex medical needs.  Pharmacists can play a significant role in managing patients with long term conditions such as asthma, diabetes and hypertension but can also be a resource in managing patients with complex medicines requiring frequent monitoring, patients with problematic polypharmacy or those with special medicine needs, for example in patients with poor kidney function.  Our Community Pharmacist is Nigel Williams.

A Pharmacist can resolve problems with medicines by:

  • Working closely with the GPs to resolve day to day medicines issues.
  • Liaising with relevant hospital, community and primary care colleagues to ensure correct medicines follow up on transfer of care.
  • Working with practice teams providing clinical medicine advice to care homes and domiciliary care support.
  • Ensuring that problems highlighted during medicine use review in community pharmacies, particularly for those patients experiencing polypharmacy, are monitored.
  • Working closely with local community pharmacists to resolve problems with prescriptions.
  • Running chronic disease clinics and liaising with practice nurses on changes of medicines.

Community Pharmacies.

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If you have symptoms of a Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) some community pharmacies now offer a UTI service for women aged 16 to 64.

After consenting to receive treatment, the pharmacist will ask you a series of questions and, if necessary, ask you to provide a urine sample (bottles will be available). The urine sample may be tested to check whether a UTI is likely to be present.

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Cliciwch yma i ddod o hyd i'ch fferyllfa agosaf

Os oes gennych symptomau Haint y Llwybr Wrinol (UTI) mae rhai fferyllfeydd cymunedol bellach yn cynnig gwasanaeth UTI i fenywod rhwng 16 a 64 oed.

Ar ôl cydsynio i dderbyn triniaeth, bydd y fferyllydd yn gofyn cyfres o gwestiynau i chi ac, os oes angen, yn gofyn i chi ddarparu sampl wrin (bydd poteli ar gael). Gellir profi’r sampl wrin i weld a yw UTI yn debygol o fod yn bresennol.

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Choose Pharmacy.

Community pharmacies already advise on a wide range of minor ailments and either recommend treatment or refer on to another healthcare professional. The Choose Pharmacy Common Ailments Service builds upon this expertise allowing community pharmacists to offer some treatments, if they are considered necessary, free of charge to eligible patients on the health service.

Please visit your community pharmacy (Nigel Williams, Morrisons, Walter Lloyd or Rowlands Community Pharmacies) are able to see you without a prior appointment and advise you on the following medical conditions:

  • Acne – Offering treatment for the condition
  • Athlete’s Foot – Offering treatment for the condition
  • Backache (Acute) – Offering treatment to those aged 20-55 years of age
  • Chicken Pox – Offering treatment for children under 14
  • Cold Sores – Offering advice only for the condition
  • Colic – Offering advice only for the condition
  • Conjunctivitis (Bacterial) – Offering treatment to those > 2 years of age
  • Constipation – Offering treatment to those > 10 years of age
  • Dermatitis (Dry skin) – Offering treatment for the condition
  • Diarrhoea – Offering advice only to those >1 years of age
  • Dry Eyes – Offering treatment or referral to the optometrist
  • Haemorrhoids – Offering treatment for the condition
  • Hay Fever – Offering treatment for the condition
  • Head Lice – Offering treatment
  • Indigestion and reflux- Offering treatment for those >12 years
  • Ingrowing toe nail – Offering advice only
  • Intertrigo/ringworm -Offering treatment
  • Mouth ulcers  – Offering advice to those over the age of 10
  • Nappy rash – Offering treatment
  • Oral thrush – Offering treatment
  • Scabies – Offering treatment to those over the age of 2
  • Sore throat and tonsillitis – Offering treatment
  • Teething – Offering treatment to those over the age of 3 months
  • Thread worms – Offering treatment to those over the age of 2
  • Vaginal thrush – Offering treatment to those aged 16-60
  • Verruca – Offering treatment to those over the age of 2