New research highlights that privacy, reassurance and education are essential for Pharmacy First to be adopted by people in England

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EDITORIAL USE ONLY A view of a Superdrug pharmacy at The Strand London, one of the first pharmacies in England to offer Pharmacy First service. Picture date: Wednesday January 31, 2024. PA Photo. Pharmacy First will be a service where pharmacists can provide people with professional health care advice, treatments, and medicines for seven common illnesses, instead of the patient going to a GP surgery.
EDITORIAL USE ONLY A view of a Superdrug pharmacy at The Strand London, one of the first pharmacies in England to offer Pharmacy First service. Picture date: Wednesday January 31, 2024. PA Photo. Pharmacy First will be a service where pharmacists can provide people with professional health care advice, treatments, and medicines for seven common illnesses, instead of the patient going to a GP surgery.
EDITORIAL USE ONLY Rahim Rahmani, Superdrug Pharmacist uses an otoscope to assess a patient’s medical condition, at The Strand, London, as part of the Pharmacy First service which launches today. Picture date: Wednesday January 31, 2024. PA Photo. Pharmacy First will be a service where pharmacists can provide people with professional health care advice, treatments, and medicines for seven common illnesses, instead of the patient going to a GP surgery.
EDITORIAL USE ONLY Rahim Rahmani, Superdrug Pharmacist uses an otoscope to assess a patient’s medical condition, at The Strand, London, as part of the Pharmacy First service which launches today. Picture date: Wednesday January 31, 2024. PA Photo. Pharmacy First will be a service where pharmacists can provide people with professional health care advice, treatments, and medicines for seven common illnesses, instead of the patient going to a GP surgery.
EDITORIAL USE ONLY Dave Hughes (left) is the first patient in England to be supplied medication under the Pharmacy First service, which launches today, by Superdrug Pharmacist Rahim Rahmani (right) in The Strand, London. Picture date: Wednesday January 31, 2024. PA Photo. Pharmacy First will be a service where pharmacists can provide people with professional health care advice, treatments, and medicines for seven common illnesses, instead of the patient going to a GP surgery.
EDITORIAL USE ONLY Dave Hughes (left) is the first patient in England to be supplied medication under the Pharmacy First service, which launches today, by Superdrug Pharmacist Rahim Rahmani (right) in The Strand, London. Picture date: Wednesday January 31, 2024. PA Photo. Pharmacy First will be a service where pharmacists can provide people with professional health care advice, treatments, and medicines for seven common illnesses, instead of the patient going to a GP surgery.

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