City Pharmacy

*City Pharmacy is responsible for dispensing and distributing medicine.
*City Pharmacy works to legal and ethical guidelines to ensure the
correct and safe supply of medical products to the general public.
*City Pharmacy works in customer-facing roles and provides an increasing range of services.

Its tasks involves:

•Dispensing prescription medicines to the public;
•Ensuring that different treatments are compatible;
•Checking dosage and ensuring that medicines are correctly and safely supplied and labelled (pharmacists are legally responsible for any dispensing errors);
•Keeping a register of controlled drugs for legal and stock control purposes;
•Liaising with doctors about prescriptions;
•Selling over-the-counter medicines;
•Counselling and advising the public on the treatment of minor ailments;
•Advising patients of any adverse side-effects of medicines or potential interactions with other medicines/treatments;
•Undertaking Medicine Use Reviews (MUR), an advanced service to help patients understand how their medicines work and why they have to take them;
•Monitoring blood pressure and cholesterol levels;
•Offering a diabetes screening service;
•Arranging the delivery of prescription medicines to patients;
•Managing, supervising and training pharmacy support staff;
•Keeping up to date with current pharmacy practice, new drugs and their uses.