NHS Pharmacy First Scotland
Your local community pharmacist provides an NHS Minor Ailments Service. If you have a minor illness, a pharmacy is the first place you should go for advice
You do not usually need an appointment and you can go to any pharmacy.
Your local pharmacist or a trained member of the pharmacy team will give you advice and provide medicine if needed. They may need to refer you to another healthcare professional such as your GP practice, dentist, optometrist or another NHS service if they feel your condition needs further investigation or more specialist care.
Pharmacists and their teams are experts in medicines and can help with minor health concerns.
A pharmacist, or a member of the pharmacy team, can give you advice and treatment (if you need it) for various minor illnesses and common clinical conditions
You can see your local pharmacist for free advice and treatment for a number of problems including:
- Acne
- Allergies
- Athlete’s foot
- Backache
- Blocked or runny nose
- Cold sores
- Constipation
- Cough
- Cystitis (in women)
- Diarrhoea
- Earache
- Eczema
- Headache
- Headlice
- Haemorrhoids (piles)
- Hay fever
- Impetigo
- Indigestion
- Mouth ulcers
- Pain
- Period pain
- Shingles
- Some skin conditions such as cellulitis or insect bites
- Sore throat
- Threadworms
- Thrush
- Urinary tract infections (UTI’s)
- Verrucas
- Warts
For further information on the NHS Pharmacy First Scotland Service please click here.
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