Minor Ailments Service

The Minor Ailments Service enables patients with a minor illness who are entitled to free prescriptions to access professional advice and medication from their community pharmacist without having to go to a GP.

This is a popular service with patients, pharmacists and GPs.

Pharmacists are skilled healthcare professionals in the provision of advice and treatments and this scheme makes pharmacy services readily accessible to the public.

The service requires an assessment of the patient by the pharmacist and the provision of advice and, if required, a supply of a medicine.

All pharmacies can be contracted to provide the service subject to staff having received appropriate training.

Details of the current scheme are outlined in the documents which can be accessed through the links below.

Latest News - March 2009

The Department issued an invitation to the Pharmaceutical Contractors Committee (PCC) on the 27th February 2009, requesting a meeting to discuss the new pharmacy contract.  PCC have been asked to forward possible meeting dates for the weeks beginning 16, 23 and 30 March and 6 April 2009.