How our Ear Health Service can help you get the treatment you need

Independent prescribing pharmacists help ensure that people have access to safe and high-quality healthcare, addressing health issues before they get worse. They are able to prescribe medicines for any condition within their clinical competence.

Why use this prescription service for your ear condition?

Sometimes you have a health problem and your busy life or the thought of trying to make a GP appointment means you might not talk to a healthcare professional.

Pharmacy+Health provides you with accessible, highly-trained healthcare professionals that can see you quickly without having to wait. Book a face-to-face consultation in one of our branches’ private consultation rooms to discuss your symptoms.

Ear conditions we treat

Our pharmacist will ask you questions and carry out a thorough clinical assessment before making a diagnosis and prescribing treatments for the following conditions:

• Build-up or impaction of earwax (cerumen)
• Outer ear infection (otitis externa)
• Middle ear infection (otitis media)

How does this service work?

Treatments

Depending on the consultation, your pharmacist might recommend the supply* of one of the following topical and oral treatments for your ears:

• Analgesics
• Anesthetics
• Steroids
• Wax softeners
• Antibiotics
• Antifungals

*medications supplied at an additional cost.

What is community pharmacy independent prescribing?

This services allows community pharmacists to develop and utlise their clinical skills and capabilities as a part of a wider shift across the health system to improve access to care in local communities and address health inequalities.

The NHS Community Pharmacy Independent Prescribing Programme aims to establish a framework for the future commissioning of NHS community pharmacy clinical services that incorporate independent prescribing for patients in primary care.

Earache for under 17’s?

If you are under 17 and suffering from earache, or you’re concerned that someone under 17 may have an ear infection, Pharmacy+Health is here to help.

As part of the Pharmacy First service, our pharmacists are now able to offer effective medication for earache and ear infections without the need for a GP appointment. Simply visit your local Pharmacy+Health team to learn more about how we can help you treat earache and ear infections via this NHS scheme.

Book an appointment today

This service will initially be available every Thursday at our Alwoodley branch.

Simply click the above link, choose the service type and then the date/time that is convenient for you. It couldn’t be simpler!

PLEASE NOTE – in accordance with our terms & conditions:

The booking and provision of a health consultation does guarantee that prescription only medicines will be offered or supplied.

That the healthcare professional will make the diagnosis.

Any diagnosis made and advice or treatment given by the healthcare professional is their considered decision at that moment in time. Subsequent new symptoms or worsening health changes do not constitute negligence on the part of the healthcare professional carrying out the health consultation.

Prescription only medicines prescribed and supplied may have side effects. The healthcare professional has no control and can not be held liable for any side effects or adverse reactions which you may experience.

Your health consultation will be provided by an appropriate and qualified healthcare professional. Subject to the service you book this will either be a Pharmacist Independent Prescriber acting within the scope of their clinical practice or a Pharmacist under a Patient Group Direction framework.