Check your blood pressure
The only way of knowing whether you have high blood pressure is to have a blood pressure test.
All adults over 40 are advised to have their blood pressure checked at least every 5 years. Getting this done is easy and could save your life.
You can get your blood pressure tested at a number of places, including at our pharmacies. If you've not been diagnosed with high blood pressure and would like to get yours checked, contact or visit one of our branches.
If we find any potential signs of high blood pressure, we will refer you to your GP for further investigation and treatment if appropriate.
It is important that you take the right dose of your prescribed medicines at the right time each day to get the most from your medicines to control your condition(s) as much as possible. This can sometimes be difficult if you take more than one medicine. One way in which this can be made easier is for your medicines to be supplied in a Monitored Dosage System, which provides you with a separate compartment for each dosage time of the day.
A monitored dosage system (MDS) is a medication storage device designed to simplify the administration of solid oral dose medication, especially for those on multiple medications. It aims to address the issues of difficulty accessing medication due to sight impairment or other disability and/or forgetfulness.
MDS devices are usually a variation on the design of a box or a blister pack, divided into days of the week with several compartments per day to allow for the different timing of doses such as breakfast, lunch, dinner and bedtime.
Our Pharmacist can help identify which patients this type of system would be suitable for.
MDS may be suitable for patients in the following circumstances:
Ask a member of our pharmacy team about whether this service would benefit you or whether there is another course of action, which may be of more help.
Flu is a highly infectious illness caused by the flu virus. It spreads rapidly through small droplets coughed or sneezed into the air by an infected person.
All of our pharmacies can advise you about Flu Vaccines, some of our branches may even be able to administer the Flu Vaccine at our pharmacy – just ask.
To find out more about who should have the Flu Jab ask your Borno Pharmacist.
Have you had a new medicine? Do you have some questions that you forgot to ask your GP? Have you got some concerns about the new medication?
Come and see one of our highly trained pharmacists and ask all of these questions. We can discuss how you are feeling taking the medicine and how you can expect to feel, how the medicine works with your body and whether the method of medication is right for you.
Let us help you understand the medicines that you are taking.
Come and speak to a Borno pharmacist today.
Available at all Borno Pharmacy branches.
Whether young or old, male or female, if you are sexually active then you should look after your Sexual Health.
Pop in for a free confidential chat. We may even be able to offer free Chlamydia Screening and testing, emergency contraception and pregnancy testing.
Just ask to speak to the pharmacist.
If you need a service that we cannot provide in-house then our pharmacist will direct you to the closest available NHS service provider.
All branches can provide advice.
Check your blood pressure
The only way of knowing whether you have high blood pressure is to have a blood pressure test.
All adults over 40 are advised to have their blood pressure checked at least every 5 years. Getting this done is easy and could save your life.
You can get your blood pressure tested at a number of places, including at our pharmacies. If you've not been diagnosed with high blood pressure and would like to get yours checked, contact or visit one of our branches.
If we find any potential signs of high blood pressure, we will refer you to your GP for further investigation and treatment if appropriate.
It is important that you take the right dose of your prescribed medicines at the right time each day to get the most from your medicines to control your condition(s) as much as possible. This can sometimes be difficult if you take more than one medicine. One way in which this can be made easier is for your medicines to be supplied in a Monitored Dosage System, which provides you with a separate compartment for each dosage time of the day.
A monitored dosage system (MDS) is a medication storage device designed to simplify the administration of solid oral dose medication, especially for those on multiple medications. It aims to address the issues of difficulty accessing medication due to sight impairment or other disability and/or forgetfulness.
MDS devices are usually a variation on the design of a box or a blister pack, divided into days of the week with several compartments per day to allow for the different timing of doses such as breakfast, lunch, dinner and bedtime.
Our Pharmacist can help identify which patients this type of system would be suitable for.
MDS may be suitable for patients in the following circumstances:
Ask a member of our pharmacy team about whether this service would benefit you or whether there is another course of action, which may be of more help.
Flu is a highly infectious illness caused by the flu virus. It spreads rapidly through small droplets coughed or sneezed into the air by an infected person.
All of our pharmacies can advise you about Flu Vaccines, some of our branches may even be able to administer the Flu Vaccine at our pharmacy – just ask.
To find out more about who should have the Flu Jab ask your Borno Pharmacist.
Have you had a new medicine? Do you have some questions that you forgot to ask your GP? Have you got some concerns about the new medication?
Come and see one of our highly trained pharmacists and ask all of these questions. We can discuss how you are feeling taking the medicine and how you can expect to feel, how the medicine works with your body and whether the method of medication is right for you.
Let us help you understand the medicines that you are taking.
Come and speak to a Borno pharmacist today.
Available at all Borno Pharmacy branches.
Whether young or old, male or female, if you are sexually active then you should look after your Sexual Health.
Pop in for a free confidential chat. We may even be able to offer free Chlamydia Screening and testing, emergency contraception and pregnancy testing.
Just ask to speak to the pharmacist.
If you need a service that we cannot provide in-house then our pharmacist will direct you to the closest available NHS service provider.
All branches can provide advice.