Healthy life check provides information on a patients's lifestyle and also evaluates what can be changed to help them become healthier. This includes a blood pressure check, cholesterol tests, weight and height measurement and a diabetes test.

Alcohol advice offers information on a patients drinking; the advice includes information on how much to drink in limit and remain healthy. It also analyses whether your drinking is having a negative impact on your health and how to change that.

We provide a private blood pressure check service. Monitoring your blood pressure as you get older is important as high blood pressure can lead to strokes and cardio-vascular problems.

Check your blood pressure

The only way of knowing whether you have high blood pressure is to have a blood pressure test.

All adults over 40 are advised to have their blood pressure checked at least every 5 years. Getting this done is easy and could save your life.

You can get your blood pressure tested at a number of places, including:

• at your GP surgery
• at our pharmacy
• as part of your NHS Health Check
• in some workplaces

You can also check your blood pressure yourself with a home blood pressure monitor.

The Chlamydia test is a free, confidential test which if you have a Sexually Transmitted Infection [STI]. The service provides medication through the pharmacy or through clinics.

Diabetes Testing

If you have out of date or unwanted medicines, both prescription or over the counter drugs, don’t bin them or flush them. You can take your unwanted or out of date medicines back to your pharmacy for safe disposal, and it’s completely FREE. Each year enormous quantities of unused and expired medications are dumped into bins or flushed down toilets and sinks. The effects on the environment and human health are unclear but evidence is pointing to the presence of chemicals from prescriptions and over-the-counter medications in soil, drinking water and the surrounding environment. Just as proper medication administration is important, so is safe and cautious disposal.

The Emergency Hormonal Contraceptive offers an emergency morning-after-pill for women in a free confidential manor. The service is quick and private.

Medicine Compliance Aid

A Medication Usage Review goes through a patient's medication and evaluates if the medication suits them. If the patient has any worries/concerns they can be aired to the pharmacist.

You can have a free NHS flu Jab at our pharmacy:
• If you are 65 years of age or over
• If you are pregnant
• If you are a carer

If you have certain medical conditions including:
• Asthma
• Chronic Respiratory Disease
• Heart Disease
• Diabetes
• Kidney Disease
• Liver Disease
• Neurological Disease

The Smoking Cessation course is a twelve week plan to aid a patient in giving up smoking. It offers advice and medication to help with the cravings and finally stop.

Weight Management is a service which helps a patient control or decrease their weight to a healthy level. The pharmacist offers dietary advice as well as exercise advice to help the patient lose weight and get to a healthy BMI.