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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
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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
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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. |
