Clinical Ambassadors in Healthy living
Healthy living medical services can include alcohol reduction, smoking cessation and weight loss services. Over 60% of all smokers want to quit, whilst 23% of the UK population is now classed as obese, and both groups of patients are desperately looking for help. By setting up a smoking cessation service or a weight loss service in your pharmacy you can fill that gap in primary care, help those who need it and create an innovative way to help boost your own pharmacy income. Read below how your fellow contractors have been doing it.
Victoria Park Pharmacy
Robin Mitchell, superintendent pharmacist at Victoria Park Pharmacy in Dorchester, talks to Saša Janković about running community-based smoking cessation services.
The Health Dispensary
Rachel Carter speaks to Ali Sparkes about her pharmacy’s weight loss service, which has been running since the mid 90s.
Jaysons Pharmacy
Rachel Carter learns about Jaysons Pharmacy’s warfarin monitoring service and how it’s helping patients stay healthier.
Touchwood Pharmacy
Name of pharmacist: Mark Baffoe-Bonnie.
How long have you been offering this service? Since 2018.
North East London LPC
Hemant Patel, secretary of North East London LPC, discusses why pharmacy must grasp the clinical services agenda and how his area has approached it
Letchworth, Newington and Pierremont Pharmacies
Name of pharmacist: Graham Phillips.
How long have you been offering this service? Since 2019.
Mayberry Pharmacy
Name of pharmacist: Jack Lewis.
How long have you been offering this service? Since 2018.
Dears Pharmacy
Name of pharmacist: Mahyar Nickkho-Amiry.
How long have you been offering this service? Since 2017.
Mayberry Pharmacy
Rachel Carter speaks to Jack Lewis, pharmacy manager at Mayberry Pharmacy Blackwood in Wales about his approach to supporting patients to quit smoking
