Services
A community pharmacy in Wales does far more than hand over bags. Prescriptions, twenty-six common conditions treated on the NHS, vaccinations, a travel clinic, blood pressure checks and a proper conversation about your medicines. Each has its own page with what happens, what it costs and who does it.
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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.
Independent
Sian's father opened the shop in 1987 and she took it over in 2012. There is no head office, no target for the number of medicine reviews a week, and nobody on the counter paid to sell you the branded version. The money goes on things like the delivery van, the blister-pack machine and opening on bank holidays, because those are what Caerphilly actually needs from a chemist.
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.
