Independent pharmacy on Cardiff Road since 1987. Tick your repeat items on this website and we do the chasing, the dispensing and the text when it is ready. Collect, or have the van bring it anywhere in the county borough for nothing. And a pharmacist you can see without an appointment.
Services
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Order your repeat prescription on this website or at the counter, we request it from your GP, dispense it and text you when it is ready: collect from the shop or have the van bring it, free, anywhere in Caerphilly county borough. Blister packs for anyone who needs them, at no charge.
NHS prescriptions are free in Wales.
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In Wales the pharmacist can assess and treat twenty-six common conditions on the NHS, free, without a GP appointment: sore throat, UTI, conjunctivitis, hay fever, athlete's foot, head lice, threadworm, cold sores, dry skin, indigestion and more. Ask at the counter; we see you in the consultation room.
Free on the NHS for anyone registered with a Welsh GP.
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NHS flu and COVID vaccinations from September for everyone eligible, no appointment on most days, and the shingles, pneumonia and whooping cough jabs for those entitled. Not eligible on the NHS? A private flu jab is £18. Given in the consultation room by a trained pharmacist.
NHS flu, COVID, shingles and pneumonia jabs free if you are eligible.
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A free travel consultation that works out what your trip needs, then the vaccines and antimalarials here, usually within the week: hepatitis A, typhoid, rabies, cholera, Japanese encephalitis, yellow fever as a registered centre, and the tablets for malaria. Priced per dose, written down before you decide.
Consultation free.
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A free NHS blood pressure check for anyone over forty, with a twenty-four-hour monitor to take home if the reading is high and a report to your GP; plus cholesterol and diabetes screening, weight management on the NHS, ear wax removal by microsuction, and the emergency contraception service, all in the consultation room.
Blood pressure check free over forty, with the home monitor free if needed.
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A free NHS medicines review for anyone on several regular medicines, a Discharge Medicines Review after a hospital stay, help with inhalers, blood thinners and new prescriptions, and a pharmacist at the counter who will tell you whether the thing you are about to buy is worth the money.
Medicines reviews free on the NHS.
Prescriptions
Order on the prescriptions page, by phone or with the slip through the door. We request it from your GP the same day, follow it up if it has not come back, dispense it, check it twice and text you when it is ready: two working days, sooner if it is urgent. Collect from the counter or have Dai bring it in the van, free, Monday to Friday, anywhere in the county borough.
How we work
If a repeat item needs the GP to sign it off, we send the request, follow it up and tell you where it is. You hear from us, not the other way round.
Ordered by six on Monday, ready by Wednesday afternoon. Urgent items are flagged and usually same day. The text tells you which.
NHS prescriptions are free in Wales. So are delivery, the blister packs for people who need them, the blood pressure check and the common ailments consultation.
Two private consultation rooms for anything you would rather not say at the counter. Medicine reviews, new prescriptions explained, the emergency contraception, the hard conversations.
The Common Ailments Service
Sore throat, with a swab test and antibiotics if it needs them. Urinary infection. Conjunctivitis, hay fever, athlete's foot, head lice, threadworm, cold sores, indigestion, and seventeen more. Ask at the counter, come into the consultation room, and leave with the medicine, free, and your surgery told. We do about forty a week, most of them on the days the surgery had nothing until Thursday.
A prescription
OrderYou
On the prescriptions page, by phone, or a slip through the door. Your regular items are listed so you tick, not type. Set any of them to re-order automatically.
OrderUs
The request goes to your GP electronically the same day. If it has not come back in a working day we chase it and tell you what they said.
DispenseUs
Labelled, bagged, checked by a second person. Blister packs made up for anyone who needs them. Out-of-stock items get a phone call, not a note.
Reviews
Eleven items a month, blister-packed, delivered on a Thursday by Dai, who waits while I check it. When the surgery changed one of them, Sian rang me before the pack went out to explain. Thirty years and never once a wrong tablet.
Sore throat on a Saturday, no chance of the GP. Walked in, swab test in the consultation room, antibiotics on the NHS in fifteen minutes, free. I did not know this service existed. Everyone should.
Three weeks in Vietnam and Cambodia. Owen did the consultation for nothing, told us which jabs the NHS covered (more than we thought), priced the rest on a sheet, and had us done in two visits. The surgery had quoted six weeks and a fortune.
Find us
On the main street through the town centre with the castle at the end of it. Thirty minutes free in the car park opposite with a prescription collection, step-free from the pavement, and open bank holidays from ten to one when most pharmacies are shut.
Tick the items on the prescriptions page, ring, or drop the slip in. We request it from your surgery, chase it if needed, and text you when it is ready, two working days later or sooner if urgent. Collect, or have the van deliver free.
Yes, in Wales all NHS prescriptions are free. So are delivery, blister packs, the common ailments consultation and medicine, the blood pressure check, and the medicines review. Private vaccines and a few private services are priced on the prices page.
Yes, any time we are open, in a private consultation room. For the twenty-six common ailments the pharmacist can treat you on the NHS without a GP appointment. If the rooms are busy the wait is usually under ten minutes.
Free, Monday to Friday, to every address in Caerphilly county borough, with our own van and driver. Dai texts before he knocks and never leaves medicines on a doorstep. Just tick "deliver" when you order.
NHS 111 Wales for advice and emergency supplies, the out-of-hours rota on the door, and A&E for emergencies. We open bank holidays from ten to one, which most pharmacies do not.
Repeat prescriptions ordered on the prescriptions page are ready in two working days, collected or delivered free. Flu jabs, travel vaccines, blood pressure checks and medicines reviews are booked with the form or by ringing the shop.
