Local Pharmacy

A home blood pressure monitor can be useful, but technique matters. A reading taken with the wrong cuff, poor posture,

Using an inhaler correctly matters because the medicine needs to reach the lungs in the way the device is designed

A little preparation can make a pharmacy blood pressure reading more useful. Before the check, give yourself time to settle,

The same medicine can sometimes be available as a tablet, capsule, liquid, dispersible preparation or another formulation, but these forms

If you find tablets or capsules difficult to swallow, do not automatically crush, split or open them. Some medicines can

A spacer is mainly used with a pressurised metered-dose inhaler (pMDI) – the type that releases a measured puff when

If you miss a dose of a regular medicine, do not automatically take two doses to “catch up”. The safest

Community pharmacies can help with much more than collecting a prescription. Pharmacists can answer questions about medicines, advise on common