NHS Pharmacy First Scotland is an NHS service provided by your local community pharmacy. If you have a minor illness, a pharmacy is the first place you should go for advice. You do not usually need an appointment and you can go to any pharmacy. Your pharmacist can give you advice for a minor illness, and medicine if they think you need it.
A pharmacist can give you advice and treatment (if you need it) for minor illnesses such as the following.
Acne/Allergies/Athlete’s foot/Backache/Blocked or runny nose/Cold sores/Constipation/Cough/Cystitis (in women)/Diarrhoea/Earache and Eczema. Headache/Head lice/Haemorrhoids(piles)/Hay Fever/Impetigo/Indigestion/Mouth ulcers/Period pain/Sore throat/Threadworms/Thrush/Warts and Verrucas.
For more information regarding Pharmacy First please contact: Your local pharmacy, the NHS helpline on 0800 22 44 88 (calls from landline are free) or the NHS Inform website (there is a link to this on the Practice home page).
