Clinical Ambassadors

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.

Clinical Ambassadors

Healthy living

Case Study Community outreach: health walks, diabetes and children’s health

Case Study Sexual health service: 'Community pharmacy is ideally placed to do this'

Case Study Blister pack recycling scheme: 'We've seen an increase in footfall as a result'

Case Study Allergy screening service: ‘Patients can’t believe the difference it has made’

Case Study Continence service: 'It accounts for 25% of our counter turnover'

Microsuction service: 'Everyone should be offering it'

New medicine service: 'I've made some potentially life-saving interventions'

Hypertension case-finding service: 'It was a breath of fresh air when this was commissioned'

Smoking cessation service: 'Giving up by yourself is hard, so this service is brilliant'

Monitored dosage system: 'We get patients asking for MDS all the time'

Late delivery service: 'Patients are delighted their medicines turn up so quickly'

Hyperbaric oxygen service: 'We use it for general wellness'

Cannabis clinic: 'It's a highly profitable service'

Osteoarthritis service: ‘I have a personal interest after being told I’d never walk again’

HIV testing: 'It links in with other services'

Independent prescribing service: 'We even get other pharmacies sending patients to us'

Hair loss test and treat service: 'It can help establish new income'

Risk management service: 'It provided insight into patients with greater complexity'

Pathology service: 'Offering such a full range of tests leads to lots of opportunities'

Diabetes screening service: 'We offer a holistic approach and people really seem to like it'

Dietetic & phlebotomy service: 'We're helping patients understand their diet and habits and make small, smart changes'

Weight loss clinic: ‘We talk to patients about services during CPCS consultations’

Phlebotomy service: 'I feel I am making a difference to the patient on another level'

How our pharmacy is using social prescribing to support patients during Covid

Falls clinic: 'Patients appreciate the extensive medication review we undertake'

Counselling service: 'Offering a holistic approach to healthcare makes sense'

Diabetes control programme: 'I would love to see this as an enhanced service'

Weight management service: 'I’d recommend this service 100%'