Evans Pharmacy | Blog

This month Public Health England have asked us to promote their Beat the Heat campaign. They have the following advice: Keep in touch Look after yourself, older people and the young. A heatwave can affect anyone, but the most vulnerable people are older people, especially those over 75,babies and young children.  Overheating can make symptoms worse for people who already have some underlying health conditions for example problems with their heart or breathing. People who are physically active – for example, labourers or those doing sports may also be affected more... Read More

Are you struggling with hay fever? If you have tried everything and are still suffering?  This injection for Hayfever may be the treatment for you   What does the treatment involve and how does it work? This is a gluteal injection(muscle at the top of your buttock) of a long acting steroid medicine. The treatment aims to relieve symptoms for three months. Whilst this treatment is not for everyone, it is popular with people with severe symptoms and where other treatments have not worked. Many of our patients return for... Read More

Going on holiday? Need a vaccine? Too busy to get to appointments? Sometimes it can be difficult to fit everything into the day. We offer a bespoke out of hours travel vaccine service to offer maximum convenience for you. We are also able to offer our bespoke out of hours service for other vaccines. Did you know that we offer appointments outside of our usual opening hours? We have a range of Sunday and evening appointments to meet your travel health needs at times that fit around you.   What is... Read More

In the media this week, travellers have been warned to check travel advice when they take medicines abroad. This is because the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) have issued a statement on banned medicines abroad . You can read one of the media articles on the BBC website. Which medicines are banned? Please call into one of our pharmacies for specific advice about your travel plans. We offer a travel health service. This includes vaccines required for travel and malaria tablets as well a travel risk assessment. We have heard... Read More

Have you ever wondered how we source your medicines? We have a team of buyers lead by Lorraine, a specialist pharmacy technician. We stock the top 200 medicines used in our pharmacies in our own warehouse. Medicines from our own warehouse are picked by our own staff and sent out regularly to our pharmacies. For other items we use three different wholesalers. This means that our pharmacies get six deliveries a day! So if we order a medicine first thing in the morning then it will often arrive in the... Read More

Have you had a prescription medicine discontinued because the NHS can no longer afford it? If so then we offer a private prescribing service for selected medicines. How does this work You will have a consultation with one of our pharmacists. This will ensure that the medicine that you are requesting is suitable for you. We will also ensure that our prescribing pharmacists have the relevant clinical experience to prescribe the item for you. We can prescribe medicines for: Acid reflux Hay fever Pain relief gel Erectile dysfunction Calcium and... Read More

We provide medicines for all of your family and that includes your pets. We often get asked for advice about worming tablets for dogs and cats. This is important because some infestations in pets can be passed onto the people in your family. This post tell you more about how to prevent worms in cats and dogs using Drontal products, which we stock in all of our pharmacies.   Why protect your dogs and cats? Worms can be a big problem, but they don’t need to be. Our dogs and cats... Read More

We are always looking for ways to improve the patient experience that we offer. So we are excited to offer patients using Evans Pharmacy, Breaston, trial of a phone app, which aims to improve your patient experience. The Healthera phone app  helps you to manage your repeat prescription medicines.   How does it work? The Healthera app connects you to an approved local pharmacy so that you receive your repeat prescriptions quickly and easily. GPs respond 70% faster to requests from local pharmacies than they do to those made by... Read More

Our pharmacists in Ruddington, Cotmanhay and Kirk Gate, Newark  branches have started to treat people with eye, ear, nose and throat infections. So in this post we are thinking about using antibiotics and treating infections well. This is because we all need to play our role to ensure that antibiotics carry on working effectively. This post tells you more about the Antibiotic Guardians campaign and what you can do to reduce antibiotic resistance.   What are antibiotic Guardians? Antibiotic Guardians is a UK-wide campaign. It aims to improve behaviours around... Read More

We provide medicines for all of the family and that includes your pets. At this time of year we often get asked for advice about treating fleas and ticks. This post tell you more about how to treat fleas and ticks in cats and dogs using Frontline Plus spot on. Why protect your cats and dogs? Flea infestations can transmit tapeworms  causing distress to your pet. This is because part of the tapeworm lifecycle is spent inside fleas. In addition fleas can cause secondary bacterial infections in pets due to... Read More