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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
- Care
in the Chemist: a scheme to provide medication for
minor ailments without the need to visit a doctor.
Minor ailments include pain, coughs/cold, headlice,
nicotine replacement therapy (smoking cessation),
hayfever, thrush.
- Pregnancy
testing
- Repeat
Prescription Collection
- FREE
Prescription Collection and Delivery
- Out
of Hours emergency prescription dispensing
-
Healthy Start vouchers accepted
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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. |
