News Minor ailments scheme moves into villages
East Riding of Yorkshire Primary Care Trust's Minor Ailments Scheme is now available at the Alliance Pharmacy in Gilberdyke and the Holme Pharmacy in Holme on Spalding Moor.
The scheme, for patients exempt from paying prescription fees, provides consultations by healthcare professionals on a range of minor health conditions within a local pharmacy setting.
These include coughs, colds and flu, constipation, head lice, insect bites, sore throats and threadworms.
Following the consultation patients will not have to pay for medicines received.
The Minor Ailments Scheme has been successfully piloted on a smaller scale in Goole and Howden over the last three years, receiving favourable feedback from users of the scheme.
The scheme has a number of advantages for patients, who will be able to talk to a healthcare professional without waiting for an appointment with their local GP.
It also offers greater convenience, with many community pharmacies open after GP surgery opening hours and the additional benefit of releasing GP appointment time for other patients.
Published on 22nd May 2008 in News.
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