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You can get more support at your local pharmacy

pharmacist giving out a prescription

The theme of Ask Your Pharmacist week 2025 is 'Ask Your Pharmacist: NHS services close to home' — did you know you can now get even more support from your local pharmacy, making it even easier to get clinical advice on minor health conditions?

Your local pharmacy can provide treatment or some prescription medicine, if needed, for seven common conditions, without you seeing a GP.

Conditions they can offer prescription medicine for are:

  • sinusitis (aged 12 years and over)
  • sore throat (aged 5 years and over)
  • earache (aged 1 to 17 years)
  • infected insect bites (aged 1 year and over)
  • impetigo (aged 1 year and over)
  • shingles (aged 18 years and over)
  • urinary tract infections (UTIs) (women aged 16 to 64 years)

Your pharmacist also offers a contraception services which includes ongoing monitoring and supply of oral contraception prescriptions as well as the initiation of oral contraception. This allows people to request a supply of the contraceptive pill for the first time directly from their pharmacy, rather than from their GP or sexual health clinic.

The Pharmacy Contraception Service has also now been expanded to include oral emergency contraception. The service provides women consistent access to free oral contraception and oral emergency contraception from community pharmacies across England.

Professor Nil Sanganee, Chief Medical Officer, Northamptonshire ICB said: “Community pharmacy teams are highly-skilled, qualified health professionals who have the right clinical training to give people the health advice they need. 

“Pharmacists have always helped patients, families and carers in their communities stay healthy and are well placed to offer treatment for health conditions. By expanding the services community pharmacies offer, the NHS is aiming to free up GP appointments and give people more choice in how and where they access care.”

Patients don't need an appointment to see a pharmacist, some are open late, during weekends and Bank Holidays, and private consultation rooms are available. Pharmacy teams can also signpost to other relevant local services where necessary.

Find out more about support from local pharmacies on the Support from your pharmacy page

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