Five ways to help your pharmacy
- Don’t visit a pharmacy if someone or someone you live with has a temperature or a new cough.
- Order your prescriptions seven days before you need them to give the pharmacy time to help everyone.
- Put your phone number on your prescription:
- the pharmacy will phone you when your prescription is ready to collect
- wait for the pharmacy to call you
- don’t call the pharmacy unless it is very urgent
- If you are staying at home because you have a new cough or temperature:
- get friends or family to pick up your prescriptions
- speak to your community pharmacy to see if they can help
- If you are not ill, offer to pick up prescriptions for any friends and family who are ill.
- you will need their name and address to be able to pick up their prescription
Pharmacy staff are working very hard to help people get the medicine they need. By following these five simple steps you can help them do their job.