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Around than nine in ten people surveyed positively rated the advice they received from their local pharmacies; new polling shows today.
As pharmacies play a greater role in looking after peoples’ health, the results from Ipsos found that the vast majority of patients (91%) who had used a community pharmacy in the previous year for advice about medicines, a health problem or injury, or what health service they should use said they received good advice.
The Ipsos survey showed that:
For ‘those who have used a pharmacy in the last year for advice about medicines, a health problem or injury, or what health service they should use, are overwhelmingly positive about the quality of the advice that they received. Nearly all (91%) say that they received good advice.’
Pharmacies offer free blood pressure checks to people over 40. This involves around 10-15 minutes in the pharmacy consultation room with a trained member of the pharmacy team. Following this, patients may be invited to take home a blood pressure monitor that measures your blood pressure as you go about your daily life.
Estimates show that 3,700 strokes and 2,500 heart attacks could be prevented as a result of the tests and around 2,000 lives could be saved in five years.
More than half a million people have also received a lifesaving heart blood pressure check in their local pharmacy since October 2021.
And over 440,000 people have been treated for a minor illness at their local pharmacy in 2022, after a referral from NHS 111 or their GP practice.