The next Barnabas Patient Voices Open Meeting is on Saturday 18 July, 10:30, at the Medical Centre. This meeting is being combined with a Coffee Morning and a Q&A session with our Clinical Pharmacist, Shazmeen Gulamhusein. The current plan is: Coffee Morning: 10:30-12:15 Pharmacist Q&A: 10:45-11:15 Open Meeting: 11:15-12:00 All welcome. Full meeting agenda to …
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Category:Pharmacy
May Bank Holiday Pharmacy Opening
If you are unlucky enough to need a pharmacy over the bank holiday, you can find a list of all pharmacies which are open on both the May bank holidays online at https://securefile.cloud/MTgyOTc/PC-bulletin/29-April-26-2/finalcommissionedrotaformay2026.pdf
Pharmacy Opening Over Easter
Just in case anyone needs it – and of course we hope you don’t – the list of pharmacy opening times over the Easter holidays can be found at http://rb.gy/myb64d.
Christmas & New Year Pharmacy Opening
As is usual, NW London NHS has published the list of pharmacies which will be open over the holidays. The list for the whole of London can be downloaded here.
Lercanidipine Recall
A batch of the blood pressure drug Lercanidipine is being recalled as the wrong dose has been printed on the packaging. See the full details at https://www.gov.uk/government/news/patients-urged-to-check-packs-of-blood-pressure-medicine-lercanidipine-after-labelling-error and in a BBC report at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy7kpwn9l4o.
Morning-after pill to be made free at pharmacies in England
The BBC is reporting that the morning-after pill is to be made free at pharmacies in England. See https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8eprd9n5plo.
How to Help the Practice
Barnabas, like all GP practices, is under pressure from increased demand, constrained funding, and fixed capacity. So how can we, as patients, help the Practice? Can you free up urgently needed GP appointments? Did you know you could contact your Pharmacist in the first instance? They can give you advice on a range of conditions …
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Catch-up with Recent Items from NWL NHS
First of all, many apologies for the lack of updates over the last several weeks. I’ve been ill and most normal activity just wasn’t possible. Luckily (and thanks to our GPs) I’m now pretty much back to what passes for normal, but I’m still trying to catch up! I’ve had quite a few potentially useful …
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