Branch Information

Branch 09: Gilesgate, Durham
Address: 34 Sunderland Road
Gilesgate
Durham
DH1 2LG
Tel: 0191 384 2172
Fax: 0191 384 2172
Find us: Click here for [Map]
Opening Hours 
Shop

Mon

9.00am - 6.00pm
Tue 9.00am - 6.00pm
Wed 9.00am - 6.00pm
Thu 9.00am - 6.00pm
Fri 9.00am - 6.00pm
Sat 9.00am - 12.30pm
Sun Closed
Pharmacy
Mon 9.00am - 12.30pm 2.00pm - 6.00pm
Tue 9.00am - 12.30pm 2.00pm - 6.00pm
Wed 9.00am - 12.30pm 2.00pm - 6.00pm
Thu 9.00am - 12.30pm 2.00pm - 6.00pm
Fri 9.00am - 12.30pm 2.00pm - 6.00pm
Sat 9.00am - 12.30pm
Sun Closed

Services Available

All NHS Pharmacies provide the following services:

  • Supplying medicines and appliances ordered on NHS and Private Prescription
  • Dispensing repeatable NHS prescriptions for medicines and appliances
  • Accepting unwanted medicines from households and individuals and ensuring safe disposal
  • Giving advice on lifestyle and public health issues and promoting public health messages
  • Providing information to people requiring support, advice or treatment which cannot be provided by the pharmacy on other health and social care providers or support organisations
  • Providing advice and support to enable people to derive maximum benefit from caring for themselves or their families

In addition, this Pharmacy provides the following services: 

  • Disability aids
  • Emergency Hormonal Contraception
  • FREE Emergency Oral Hormonal Contraception
  • Minor ailments - Hayfever
  • Minor ailments - Headlice
  • Palliative Care
  • Pregnancy Testing
  • Pre-registration Pharmacist Training
  • Repeat Prescription Collection
  • FREE Prescription Collection and Delivery
  • Smoking Cessation
  • Medication Use Reviews
  • Healthy Start vouchers accepted
Pharmacists 

Mr. Julian Beaumont
RPSGB Reg: 80630
First registered: 27/07/87

 
History 

M. Whitfield Ltd.'s first Pharmacy in Durham City opened in 1941 in Empire Buildings, Sherburn Road and was originally managed by Miss. Mary Whitfield, the daughter of the company's founder, Mr. Joseph Strachan Whitfield. In 1942, Mary Whitfield married Mr. John Grundy, a Pharmacist she had met at Sunderland School of Pharmacy.

In 1954, the Pharmacy transferred to a new acquisition at 18 Sunderland Road, Gilesgate. In 1965 we were notified that this property was to be compulsorily purchased as part of a redevelopment plan by Durham Council. M. Whitfield Ltd. therefore purchased four small cottages (34,35,36 and 37 Sunderland Road, Gilesgate) from the Church Commissioners, and applied for planning permission to convert these into shop premises. Durham County Council turned down the application, and it was only after a public enquiry (supported by Durham City Council) that we eventually obtained planning permission. The photo on the left shows 18 Gilesgate shortly before it was demolished.

The Pharmacy was built during 1966-67. Mr. Alan Milligan replaced the original Pharmacist/Manager Mr. Harvey Bergson in 1967.