Pharmacy First

NHS Pharmacy First 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.

Your local pharmacist or a trained member of the pharmacy team will give you advice and provide medicine if needed. They may refer you to another healthcare professional if they feel your condition needs further investigation or more specialist care. For example your:

• GP practice
• dentist
• optometrist
• another NHS service

You can use NHS Pharmacy First Scotland if you are registered with a GP practice in Scotland or you live in Scotland.

A list of conditions that Pharmacy First can treat can be found on the NHSinform Pharmacy First page.