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Tesco make bid to have extended hours pharmacy service available in store

Tesco has made an application to the Primary Care Trust (PCT) to add a pharmacy to its Goole store.

If the plan goes ahead it could see pharmaceutical services put into place at the Boothferry Road site, with extended hours of at least 100 hours per week.

In order to be added to the pharmaceutical list, the East Riding PCT requires that Tesco provide local enhanced services as and when the PCT are able to commission them. These include smoking cessation services, advisory service to care homes, a needle and syringe exchange and an out-of-hours service.

This could mean that people will be able to pick up prescriptions when other pharmacies in the area have closed.

Lloyds Pharmacy on Boothferry Road, situated opposite Tesco, has put in a bid to move to the hospital site when the new medical centre is built there.

At Monday's Goole Town Council meeting Cllr Kester Dean said: "I think we need some kind of guarantee that the extended opening hours will be indefinite. If they were to be cut later this would be a concern. I'd like more information, I want to know how long these extended opening hours are guaranteed for."

Cllr Shirley Marshall said: "I don't see what we can object to - Tesco are just following what other supermarkets like Morrisons and Asda have already done. I think we should support it."

Cllr Jane Marsden added: "I find it odd that Lloyds is going up to the hospital site - I can't see why Tesco hasn't put in a bid to go up there. Again, it is Tesco doing other people out of business. I'm not at all happy."

Town councillors agreed to accept the proposal.

Cllr Malcolm Boatman added: "I feel that Lloyds would be OK. They have the site next door to the doctors' surgery and possibly next door to the hospital, so people will go there with their prescriptions. The benefit of having a pharmacy at Tesco is the extended opening hours, which would benefit the town."

Published on 10th January 2008 in News.

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