We are keen to help patients improve on self help and hope that the following information will offer some insight into that.
Take a look and see if you can improve your own understanding of your health and well-being! Please encourage others to look here too.
Here is a list of ailments that can be safely self managed. You will see that you can take a look via the hyperlink at the other websites which can offer you further information about managing your condition.
Community Pharmacy Referral Scheme
What is this new service about?
Very soon, when you call the practice, you will be asked about your symptoms. If they indicate that you can best be helped by a pharmacist, you will be offered a same day private consultation with a community pharmacist.
Community pharmacists have already successfully seen thousands of patients for a consultation for a minor illness, following a call to NHS 111.
This new way of arranging consultations with the pharmacist by a GP practice, has been successfully piloted around the country.
First Aid Kit
- Alcohol based hand sanitiser
- Antihistamine tablets
- Thermometer, painkillers such as paracetamol or ibuprofen (or infant if required)
- Cough medicine
- Cold/Flu relief drinks or capsules
- Throat Lozenges
- Diarrhoea relief
- Antiseptic Cream
- Antihistamine tablets
- Plaster
- Tweezers
- Sterile gauze dressing
- Bandages
- Alcohol-free cleansing wipes
- Vitamin D
- Pulse Oximeter to measure sats if affected by Covid
- BP pressure monitor
Common Ailments That Can be Self Managed
| Back pain NHS Choices | Cold sores NHS Choices |
| Common Cold NHS Choices | Conjunctivitis NHS Choices |
| Constipation NHS Choices | Cough NHS Choices |
| Diarrhoea NHS Choices | Dysmenorrhoea (painful periods) NHS Choices |
| Earache NHS Choices | Haemorrhoids NHS Choices |
| Hayfever NHS Choices | Head lice NHS Choices |
| Headache NHS Choices | Heartburn & Indigestion NHS Choices |
| Influenza NHS Choices | Insect bites NHS Choices |
| Migraine NHS Choices | Nasal congestion NHS Choices |
| Nappy rash NHS Choices | Sore throat NHS Choices |
| Sinusitis NHS Choices | Sprains and strains NHS Choices |
| Thrush NHS Choices | Warts and Verrucas NHS Choices |