MORE THAN 3,000 PATIENTS WELCOMED AT MEDICX PHARMACY ROCHDALE
MEDICX Pharmacy Rochdale has welcomed more than three thousand patients since it opened earlier this summer.
Pharmacy Manager John Vaughan said there had been an excellent response to their services and facilities at the new Wellfield Medical Centre on Oldham Road in Rochdale.
MedicX Pharmacy’s patient-focussed approach and stylish interior design which enables people to speak to pharmacists in semi-privacy as well as its free prescription delivery service have been particularly welcomed.
The pharmacy is open every day of the week until 10pm including Sundays and Bank Holidays. It is equipped with two consultation rooms, a large reception desk and a semi-private hand-out area for prescriptions which allows advice and information to be provided discreetly to patients.
Award-winning MedicX Pharmacy operates a total of 15 pharmacy practices throughout England including practices in Greater London and the South East as well as Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Lancashire and Yorkshire.
Largely situated within newly-built GP health centres, MedicX Pharmacy has an excellent reputation among healthcare professionals and patient communities.
John explained: “MedicX Pharmacy is delighted to be part of the Wellfield community and we’re working in partnership with GPs to help us provide the very best patient care and become an integrated part of local health care provision.
“The convenience of late night pharmacy services, free car parking as well as our location not far from the urgent care centre at Rochdale Infirmary are seeing more and more people benefit from our services and expertise.”
As well as traditional dispensing services and the prescription delivery service, the pharmacy practice will be shortly introducing advisory, testing and screening services such as blood pressure and cholesterol checks, smoking cessation services, life style assessments as well as medicine use reviews, advice and support.
Notes to Editors
- MedicX Pharmacy Rochdale team members with the local mayor at the official opening.
- MedicX Pharmacy has a total of 15 pharmacy practices. The first MedicX Pharmacy opened in Chorley, Lancashire January 2009. Practices are currently located in Lytham, Lancashire; Rotherham, Yorkshire; Ossett, Yorkshire; Blackpool, Lancashire; Ashton Under Lyne, Greater Manchester; Rochdale, Greater Manchester; Bermondsey Spa, London; Apsley, Hertfordshire; Hounslow, London; Thingwall, Merseyside; Tranmere, Merseyside; Bishop Stortford, Hertfordshire; Wallington, Surrey; Coppull, Lancashire.
- MedicX Pharmacy started in 2008 under the leadership of Chief Executive Steve Jeffers and Operations Director Gavin Birchall.
- Steve and Gavin have both worked extensively within the community pharmacy sector at all levels from owning and managing pharmacy practices to spearheading national pharmaceutical research, working with the NHS and Primary Care Trusts as well as working with specialist health centre developers.
- MedicX Pharmacy practices provide a wide variety of innovative and integrated pharmacy services. Some of the pharmacy practices operate 100-hour working licences to provide late night opening hours throughout the week as well as on Bank Holidays including Christmas Day and Easter Sunday.
- MedicX Pharmacy works with NHS commissioners to provide a range of commissioned health care services including Medicine Use Reviews, Minor Ailment Services, Smoking Cessation Services, Weight Management Services, Specialist Dispensing Services and Influenza Vaccination Services.
- MedicX Pharmacy also provides a range of services to support patients in a better understanding of their health risks including blood pressure management, blood glucose measurement and healthier lifestyle assessment.
- MedicX Pharmacy Blackpool was presented with the Chemist + Druggist Clinical Service of the Year 2011 award. MedicX Pharmacy Apsley was among the prize-winners in the Chemist + Druggist Platinum Design Awards 2012 which recognised pharmacies that have created the best healthcare environments.
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