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Minor Ailment Service
This is an NHS service for people, including children, who don't pay for prescription charges. It means that if your pharmacist thinks you need a medicine to treat your minor illness, and you are eligible, then they can supply it free of charge.
The following illnesses the service can support:
- Blocked nose
- Cold
- Cold sores
- Conjunctivitis
- Constipation
- Contact dermatitis
- Cough
- Cystitis
- Diarrhoea
- Earache
- Haemorrhoids
- Hayfever
- Headache
- Head lice
- Heartburn
- High temperature
- Impetigo
- Indigestion
- Insect bites or stings
- Mouth ulcers
- Nappy rash
- Sore throat
- Threadworm
Our Pharmacies which provide this service are: