NHS Services
Medicine Use Review
You can request a Medicine Use Review with McGrath's Pharmacy at any time, or a member of our Pharmacy Team may ask you to participate in an M.U.R. if we feel you could benefit from this service.
Other healthcare professionals, including your G.P. may also suggest that your pharmacist carries out an M.U.R. with you.During the Medicine Use Review you will speak privately with our Pharmacist to discuss how best to manage your medication and examine issues directly relating to your medicines such as:
- How well are your symptoms controlled?
- What are your medicines for?
- How do they work?
- What is the best way to take them?
- What is the best time to take them?
- What is a particular medicine for?
- How do you improve your inhaler technique?
We are pleased to offer this service, as it allows you easy access to crucial knowledge about your medicines, whilst ensuring you to get the best results from them.
Minor Ailments
McGrath's Pharmacy Pharmacists are trained and qualified to treat many minor ailments saving you valuable time
The Minor Ailments service includes treatment for many common conditions ranging from Athletes Foot and Diarrhoea to Head Lice and Ear Wax and many more.
And the great news is that when we treat your minor ailment you don’t even need to book an appointment – just come to the dispensary and ask to speak to the Pharmacist. We will be able to advise you if the minor ailment affecting you, can be treated free under the Minor Ailment Scheme.
Whilst in most cases the treatment recommended by our Pharmacist will cure your condition it is important that if your symptoms persist you seek further advice from the Pharmacist or GP. If you choose to visit your GP always let the Doctor know you have been treated by our Pharmacy and the treatment we recommended.
Incontinence Care
Pharmacy First enables McGrath's Pharmacy patients to have a consultation in a private area and to receive advice and treatment for sore throats, colds and flu like illness.
Our Pharmacy team are trained and have the experise to provide advice and treatment for a range of common winter ailments such as the common cold flu and sore throats.
This is a free service and no appointment is necessary. Please contact the Pharmacy and ask to speak to a Pharmacist.
Medicine Management
McGrath's Pharmacy provides a free private and personal review to help our customers manage and understand their medication better.
Our Medicine Management service will be of particular benefit to those customers who take multiple medications on a regular basis, perhaps treating several different medical conditions. If you feel you could benefit from a review of your medication you will find the meeting with the Pharmacist relaxed, helpful and informative.
A Medicines Management Review is an ideal opportunity for both you and our Pharmacist to discuss your overall medication needs in a friendly and informal way in a private consultation room within our pharmacy. We will chat about
- The medicines you are taking
- What they do
- How well they work for you
- How to get the most out of them
Medicines work in different ways. Some are taken before you eat to allow them to get into your system quickly.
Some won’t work properly if they are taken with certain foods and herbal remedies or with other medicines.
Some medicines must be taken with or after food because they may otherwise irritate your stomach.
Some should not be crushed because they need to be released into your system slowly, and crushing them could allow them to get into your system too fast.
After a review, we may find that certain medications are no longer required or that they should be taken at a different time of the day or perhaps in a different way.
For a free Medicine Review speak to our Pharmacist or contact us online or by phone.
Disposal & Recycling
McGrath's Pharmacy can safely dispose of out date medication and recycle the packaging where appropriate to do so.
If you have just opened your medicine cupboard or drawer and wonder how you have managed to accumulate all those unused and out of date medicines, or perhaps you are clearing the contents of a loved one’s home and don’t know what to do with medication that is no longer needed, then you are not alone and help is at hand.
Disposing of drugs in general waste can be dangerous. We offer a free service which gives you the complete reassurance that disposal of your unused medication will not cause harm when left in our professional hands.
Oxygen Supply
McGrath's Pharmacy operate a specialist oxygen service. Supplying oxygen equipment and portable oxygen sets prescribed by your doctor
Pain Control
McGrath's Pharmacy qualified staff are available to advise on the correct type of pain control medication or alternative treatments that would help alleviate your symptoms best.
The Pharmacist is happy to assist with advising on the correct course of treatment and if any concerns are raised, may advise that you contact your doctor.
Ostomy
McGrath's Pharmacy can supply all the necessary equipment needed including: pouch systems or ostomy bags, barrier rings and offer support and advice when needed.
Having a urostomy or colostomy bag fitted is without doubt a life changing experience but we know from the many customers who we have helped that once a personal solution has been established, life goes on pretty much as normal.
If we can assist you in any way please speak to the Pharmacist
Smoking Cessation
Here at McGrath's Pharmacy we care about your long term health and if you are a smoker who wants to quit, but think that you need help to kick the habit, our Stop Smoking Service might just be what you are looking for.
Our Pharmacy team is is specially trained to provide free expert help and advice to support you while you initially break the smoking habit and then to stay off cigarettes for good. To help you break your nicotine addiction we may recommend Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT). This comes in many different forms including patches and gum and it is important that the right option is chosen to suit your individual needs.
Evidence has shown that if you take part in a Stop Smoking Service that combines advice and support with NRT you are 4 times more likely to quit compared to using willpower alone. This is how the 12 week Stop Smoking programme works:
Initial Consultation
The first consultation with our pharmacist or specially trained advisor takes around 15 minutes. During this time we will agree a quit date and work out the best way for you to quit and learn about the programme.
Week 1
Before or on your agreed date you will visit the pharmacy, have a 5 minute consultation and if recommended, pick up your first week’s supply of NRT.
Weeks 2 to 12
After that you can return to the Pharmacy every week for up to 12 weeks to pick up your supply of NRT.
Pharmacy First
Pharmacy First enables McGrath's Pharmacy patients to have a consultation in a private area and to receive advice and treatment for sore throats, colds and flu like illness.
Our Pharmacy team are trained and have the experise to provide advice and treatment for a range of common winter ailments such as the common cold flu and sore throats.
This is a free service and no appointment is necessary. Please contact the Pharmacy and ask to speak to a Pharmacist.