This is a free NHS service for eligible patients aged between 40 -74 and registered with a GP in Folkestone.
Testing Monitoring and supply of Anticoagulants (Warfarin).
We provide blood pressure check. Sales of medical equipment e.g. blood pressure monitors and Blood glucose testing equipment.
We supply free condoms and sexual health advice to teenagers registered on the scheme.
treatment for chlamydia without needing to see your GP
We provide the Discharge Medicines Service. The service has been established to help you understand your medicines and any changes when you leave hospital and to reduce incidences of avoidable harm caused by medicines.
Our pharmacists can offer a morning after pill which may avoid the risk of pregnancy. Please note in some case you may be referred to your doctor. Please contact or visit our pharmacy for more details.
We can arrange to have your prescription collected for you from your doctor's surgery and have it dispenced and ready for you to collect from the pharmacy or have it delivered right to your door.
* Free Delivery Service * Repeat Prescription Ordering * Automatic Ordering Service * Electronic Prescription Service * Text Reminders (a reminder will be sent when your prescription is ready to be collected from the pharmacy)
Pharmacy stock a wide range of mobility and general living aids for the elderly and disabled such as walking aids, incontinence aids, wheelchairs etc.
We supply medicines within a monitored dosage system for your prescribed medicines at the right time each day to get the most from your medicines to control your condition as much as possible. This can sometimes be difficult if you take more than one medicine. Our Pharmacist can help identify which patients this type of system would be suitable for.
Your GP may prescribe you a “Nebuliser” to help you with your asthma and breathing difficulties. As nebulisers are not allowed on the NHS, we can supply you a nebuliser suitable to your needs.
Starting a new medicine can be difficult, you might not be sure how or when to use it or what its side effects might be. Our pharmacist can support you through the first few weeks of a new medicine with advice and support. We can do this in a way that is tailored to suite you, we could do this as phone consultation or see you in the pharmacy, whatever works best for you.
We care about your long term health and if you are a smoker who wants to quit, but think you need help to kick the habit, our award winning Stop Smoking Service might be just what you are looking for. We have had many successes over the years and wish to help you kick the habit.
Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT)
Smoking is the biggest cause of preventable deaths accounting for more than 80,000 deaths each year. One in two smokers will die from a smoking related disease. If you could see the damage you would stop.
Circulation
When you smoke, the poisons from the tar in your cigarettes enter your blood. These poisons in your blood then:
Together these changes to your body when you smoke increase the chance of your arteries narrowing and clots forming which could lead to heart attack and stroke.
Stomach
Smokers have an increased chance of getting stomach cancer or ulcers. Smoking is a significant risk factor for developing kidney cancer and the more you smoke the greater the risk.
Skin
Smoking reduces the amount of oxygen that gets to your skin. This means your skin ages more quickly and looks grey and dull. The toxins in your body also cause cellulite. Smoking prematurely ages your skin by between 10 and 20 years increasing wrinkling particularly around the eyes and mouth. The only way to prevent further deterioration is to stop smoking.
Bones
Smoking can cause your bones to become weak and brittle predisposing to brittle bones (osteoporosis).
Brain
Smokers are more likely to have a stroke than someone who doesn’t smoke. Within two years of stopping smoking your risk of stoke is reduced to half that of a smoker and within five years it will be the same as a non-smoker.
Lungs
Your lungs can be very badly affected by smoking. Coughs, colds, wheezing and asthma are just the start. Smoking can cause fatal diseases such as pneumonia emphysema, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer. You can slow down the progression of some of the diseases by stopping smoking.
Mouth and throat
Smoking causes unattractive problems such as bad breath and stained teeth and can cause gum disease and damage your taste.
Reproduction
Smoking can cause male impotence as it damages blood vessels that supply blood to the penis. It can also damage sperm and cause testicular cancer. For women smoking reduces fertility. One study estimated the fertility of smoking women was 72% of that of a non smoker. Smoking also increases the risk of cervical cancer. Smoking while pregnant can lead to miscarriage, premature birth, stillbirth and illness and increases cot death by 25%.
The good news is you can stop smoking and we are here to help.
Our Care Home Services are here to help you provide safe, effective and appropriate care for your residents' health needs. We can provide medicines to care homes in the Biodose monitored dosage system which includes liquids in the pods.
We provide a palliative care service. Palliative care drugs can sometimes be required quickly and this service ensures that there is appropriate access to a range of palliative care drugs, particularly outside of normal opening hours, and when treatment is needed urgently.
Many of the drugs used in palliative care are not usually used for other conditions and are often not stocked in community pharmacies. As a palliative care service provider we hold a stock of palliative care drugs for when needed right away. The service is suitable for patients receiving palliative care and those providing their care.
We stock wormers for cats and dogs and flea control products.
We provide a free NHS Quit Smoking Programme, our pharmacists offer comprehensive support and advice on smoking cessation. We can discuss a range of nicotine replacement therapies including skin patches, chewing gum, inhalers, tablets and lozenges as well as mouth sprays and also provide personal 1 to 1 counselling and tips on how to quit and stay quit.
We stock travel vaccinations
We provide truss fitting measuring and fitting service to our patients.
We provide free weight loss service and diet advice, our health advisor is able to give you all the support you need to lose weight and tips about effective weight management.
We can offer weight management help. Pharmacists are ideally placed to help you manage your weight as they already provide many health services to customers, including stop smoking services, blood pressure and cholesterol measurements and general advice on nutrition and healthy living. Pharmacists also know when a weight problem can be managed in the pharmacy and when there is a medical problem that needs co-operation with the doctor.
Ask us for advice on how to get started.
This is a free NHS service for eligible patients aged between 40 -74 and registered with a GP in Folkestone.
Testing Monitoring and supply of Anticoagulants (Warfarin).
We provide blood pressure check. Sales of medical equipment e.g. blood pressure monitors and Blood glucose testing equipment.
We supply free condoms and sexual health advice to teenagers registered on the scheme.
treatment for chlamydia without needing to see your GP
We provide the Discharge Medicines Service. The service has been established to help you understand your medicines and any changes when you leave hospital and to reduce incidences of avoidable harm caused by medicines.
Our pharmacists can offer a morning after pill which may avoid the risk of pregnancy. Please note in some case you may be referred to your doctor. Please contact or visit our pharmacy for more details.
We can arrange to have your prescription collected for you from your doctor's surgery and have it dispenced and ready for you to collect from the pharmacy or have it delivered right to your door.
* Free Delivery Service * Repeat Prescription Ordering * Automatic Ordering Service * Electronic Prescription Service * Text Reminders (a reminder will be sent when your prescription is ready to be collected from the pharmacy)
Pharmacy stock a wide range of mobility and general living aids for the elderly and disabled such as walking aids, incontinence aids, wheelchairs etc.
We supply medicines within a monitored dosage system for your prescribed medicines at the right time each day to get the most from your medicines to control your condition as much as possible. This can sometimes be difficult if you take more than one medicine. Our Pharmacist can help identify which patients this type of system would be suitable for.
Your GP may prescribe you a “Nebuliser” to help you with your asthma and breathing difficulties. As nebulisers are not allowed on the NHS, we can supply you a nebuliser suitable to your needs.
Starting a new medicine can be difficult, you might not be sure how or when to use it or what its side effects might be. Our pharmacist can support you through the first few weeks of a new medicine with advice and support. We can do this in a way that is tailored to suite you, we could do this as phone consultation or see you in the pharmacy, whatever works best for you.
We care about your long term health and if you are a smoker who wants to quit, but think you need help to kick the habit, our award winning Stop Smoking Service might be just what you are looking for. We have had many successes over the years and wish to help you kick the habit.
Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT)
Smoking is the biggest cause of preventable deaths accounting for more than 80,000 deaths each year. One in two smokers will die from a smoking related disease. If you could see the damage you would stop.
Circulation
When you smoke, the poisons from the tar in your cigarettes enter your blood. These poisons in your blood then:
Together these changes to your body when you smoke increase the chance of your arteries narrowing and clots forming which could lead to heart attack and stroke.
Stomach
Smokers have an increased chance of getting stomach cancer or ulcers. Smoking is a significant risk factor for developing kidney cancer and the more you smoke the greater the risk.
Skin
Smoking reduces the amount of oxygen that gets to your skin. This means your skin ages more quickly and looks grey and dull. The toxins in your body also cause cellulite. Smoking prematurely ages your skin by between 10 and 20 years increasing wrinkling particularly around the eyes and mouth. The only way to prevent further deterioration is to stop smoking.
Bones
Smoking can cause your bones to become weak and brittle predisposing to brittle bones (osteoporosis).
Brain
Smokers are more likely to have a stroke than someone who doesn’t smoke. Within two years of stopping smoking your risk of stoke is reduced to half that of a smoker and within five years it will be the same as a non-smoker.
Lungs
Your lungs can be very badly affected by smoking. Coughs, colds, wheezing and asthma are just the start. Smoking can cause fatal diseases such as pneumonia emphysema, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer. You can slow down the progression of some of the diseases by stopping smoking.
Mouth and throat
Smoking causes unattractive problems such as bad breath and stained teeth and can cause gum disease and damage your taste.
Reproduction
Smoking can cause male impotence as it damages blood vessels that supply blood to the penis. It can also damage sperm and cause testicular cancer. For women smoking reduces fertility. One study estimated the fertility of smoking women was 72% of that of a non smoker. Smoking also increases the risk of cervical cancer. Smoking while pregnant can lead to miscarriage, premature birth, stillbirth and illness and increases cot death by 25%.
The good news is you can stop smoking and we are here to help.
Our Care Home Services are here to help you provide safe, effective and appropriate care for your residents' health needs. We can provide medicines to care homes in the Biodose monitored dosage system which includes liquids in the pods.
We provide a palliative care service. Palliative care drugs can sometimes be required quickly and this service ensures that there is appropriate access to a range of palliative care drugs, particularly outside of normal opening hours, and when treatment is needed urgently.
Many of the drugs used in palliative care are not usually used for other conditions and are often not stocked in community pharmacies. As a palliative care service provider we hold a stock of palliative care drugs for when needed right away. The service is suitable for patients receiving palliative care and those providing their care.
We stock wormers for cats and dogs and flea control products.
We provide a free NHS Quit Smoking Programme, our pharmacists offer comprehensive support and advice on smoking cessation. We can discuss a range of nicotine replacement therapies including skin patches, chewing gum, inhalers, tablets and lozenges as well as mouth sprays and also provide personal 1 to 1 counselling and tips on how to quit and stay quit.
We stock travel vaccinations
We provide truss fitting measuring and fitting service to our patients.
We provide free weight loss service and diet advice, our health advisor is able to give you all the support you need to lose weight and tips about effective weight management.
We can offer weight management help. Pharmacists are ideally placed to help you manage your weight as they already provide many health services to customers, including stop smoking services, blood pressure and cholesterol measurements and general advice on nutrition and healthy living. Pharmacists also know when a weight problem can be managed in the pharmacy and when there is a medical problem that needs co-operation with the doctor.
Ask us for advice on how to get started.