Local Pharmacy Services

We have three local community Pharmacies:

Boots
Address: 28 Broad Street, Launceston, PL15 8AE
Contact number: 01566 772085

Day Lewis
Address: 9 Broad Street, Launceston, PL15 8AA
Contact number: 01566 772081

Tesco
Address: Tavistock Road, Launceston, PL15 9HG
Contact number: 01172 913325
Up-to-date opening times can be found via Tesco’s Facebook page ‘Tesco Launceston Pharmacy’

All our local Pharmacies have a private consultation room and offer many different services such as Pharmacy First, the NHS Free Contraception Service and winter flu jabs.

Service – Pharmacy First

All our local Pharmacies can provide advice and treatment, including access to prescription medicines where appropriate, for seven common conditions without needing a GP appointment under a service called Pharmacy First.

The seven conditions are:

  • Sinusitis (adults and children aged 12 years and over)
  • Sore throat (adults and children aged 5 years and over)
  • Earache (children and young adults aged 1 year to 17 years)
  • Infected insect bite (adults and children aged 1 year and over)
  • Impetigo (adults and children aged 1 year and over)
  • Shingles (adults aged 18 years and over)
  • Uncomplicated urinary tract infections (women, aged 16 to 64 years)

To access this service, you simply present at Boots, Day Lewis or Tesco and ask for help. There is no need to speak to a clinician at the Surgery beforehand.

Your GP or NHS 111 may also refer you to the Pharmacy First service if they think this is the best place for you to access the advice and treatment you need.

The consultation is free. NHS prescription charge rules apply where a medicine is supplied. Eligibility criteria applies.

Boots: https://www.boots.com/healthhub/a-z-services/pharmacy-first?msockid=37888894fc6061f52f589d6bfddb60b3

Day Lewis: Pharmacy First – Day Lewis

Tesco: NHS Pharmacy First Service – Tesco Groceries

Service – NHS Free Contraception Service

All our local Pharmacies offer the contraceptive pill without a prescription, for free. This service can be used to start or continue the contraceptive pill. You do not need to see a doctor or nurse for a prescription.

This service is suitable for patients up to age 49 for the combined oral contraceptive (COC), and age 54 for the progesterone-only pill (POP).

Please visit this NHS link for further information: Find a pharmacy that offers the contraceptive pill without a prescription – NHS

This service is for oral contraception only. Eligibility criteria applies.