M Whitfield Ltd, Thornley

Address:
2 Stanley Terrace
Thornley
Co. Durham
DH6 3ES

Telephone:
01429 820 297

Prescription Collection & Delivery Telephone:
01429 821 670

Fax:
01429 820 297

Repeat Prescription Ordering Service

No need to phone both the Surgery and the Pharmacy! WE can order your Repeat Prescription and deliver it to you, or have it ready to collect from this Pharmacy. To order your Repeat Prescription, telephone us or simply drop your repeat slip into this Pharmacy:

01429 821 670


Opening Hours

Shop

Pharmacy
Monday:
09.00 - 12.30 13.30 - 18.00
Monday:
09.00 - 12.30 13.30 - 18.00
Tuesday:
09.00 - 12.30 13.30 - 18.00
Tuesday:
09.00 - 12.30 13.30 - 18.00
Wednesday:
09.00 - 12.30 13.30 - 18.00
 
Wednesday:
09.00 - 12.30 13.30 - 18.00
Thursday:
09.00 - 12.30 13.30 - 17.30
(18.00 alternate weeks)
 
Thursday:
09.00 - 12.30 13.30 - 17.30

(18.00 alternate weeks)
Friday:
09.00 - 12.30 13.30 - 18.00
 
Friday:
09.00 - 12.30 13.30 - 18.00
Saturday:
09.00 - 12.30
Saturday:
09.00 - 12.30
Sunday:
Closed
Sunday:
Closed

Services available from this Pharmacy

Repeat Prescription Collection

FREE Prescription Collection and Delivery
Free Blood Pressure Screening
Cholesterol Screening
Diabetes Screening
Medication Use Review
Smoking Cessation
Weight Management
Healthy Start vouchers accepted

Free medication for patients who do not pay for their prescriptions for the following conditions:

  • Athletes foot
  • Constipation
  • Contact Dermatitis
  • Diarrhoea
  • Hayfever
  • Headache/fever
  • Headlice
  • Indigestion/heartburn
  • Nasal congestion
  • Sore throat
  • Thrush
  • Threadworm
  • Teething
Independent Living supplies

Pharmacists

Mrs. Julie Hill
RPSGB Reg: 78264
First registered: 22/07/85
GPhC Registration: 2031084

Branch 07


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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 concerning 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 

History of this branch

Our first Pharmacy in Thornley opened in 1936 and was originally located at 1/2 Hartlepool Street. M. Whitfield Ltd. had only two branches at this stage, Thornley and Horden. The first manager was Mr. Jack Davis, who left in 1939 to start his own business in Staindrop. Mr. Johnson, Mr. Whitfield's son-in-law, had been managing the Horden branch, but transferred to Thornley when Jack Davis left, and he remained manager until 1942 when Mr. John Henderson joined the firm. Mr. Henderson was a keen photographer and operated a Photographic Studio in this branch for many years.

A second branch was opened in Thornley in 1955. The latter purchase came about by virtue of a rival pharmacist, who had decided to open a pharmacy in Stanley Terrace which was considerably nearer to the Doctors' Surgery than was our Hartlepool Street branch. On hearing the announcement of the impending opening of the rival pharmacy, Mr. Whitfield and his other son-in-law John Grundy, working with astonishing speed, took only a matter of days to meet the residents of 2, Stanley Terrace, persuade them to move to a new housing estate, rehouse them and hurriedly establish a dispensary in their former home. M.Whitfield Ltd.'s second Thornley branch opened on the very same day as the rival, but crucially, located between the rival and the Surgery. The rival closed after only a few years.

The Hartlepool Street branch also suffered a loss of prescriptions because of the new Pharmacy in Stanley Terrace, and closed in 1962. The Manager, John Henderson, transferred 'up the hill' to the newer branch, replacing Mr. Joe Grist, and the old pharmacy traded briefly and largely unsuccessfully as a Drug Store.