Glinton.Net - Glinton Pharmacy

Did you know that this was going to happen?

As from March 2003 Glinton got a new pharmacy in the village (depsite there being a new pharmacy inthe doctors surgery). This means that patients in the village were no longer able to use the pharmacy in the Doctors surgery from the 10th September 2003

For more details please see opposite.

Glinton Pharmacy

As visitors to this site from Glinton may be aware, because we live in an area that is considered rural in character and there was no pharmacy nearby the surgery in Glinton was able to supply medication through it's own pharmacy. Within the past year this pharmacy has been extended to cater for the population that it serves.

In March 2003 a pharmacy opened in the old "Glinton Village Store" located on the land in front of the Blue Bell public house and next door to the village primary school. The NHS gave permission for this pharmacy to open having presumably decided that the application to open the pharmacy was necessary to "secure in the neighbourhood... the adequate provision" (of pharmacy services) - despite the Doctors Surgery having recently upgraded the pharmacy - under the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 1992 (Part 2, Paragraph 4 subparagraph 4) and under the above regulation, any person living within a 1 mile radius of the pharmacy must have their prescriptions dispensed at a pharmacy other than the one attached to the surgery.

From 10th September 2003 anyone living within a mile of the new pharmacy will need to take their prescriptions to a pharmacy of their choice. Note that according to the NHS this does not have to be the new pharmacy in Glinton, it can be any pharmacy that you choose (but although patients have "freedom of choice" they may not choose the pharmacy in the Doctors surgery). Patients living outside of the 1 mile radius of the pharmacy and using the Glinton surgery may continue to use the pharmacy within the surgery. The one mile radius includes all houses in Glinton, Etton and some houses in Peakirk.

Patients at the Glinton surgery may continue to use the pharmacy within the surgery only if the South Peterborough Primary Care Trust is satisfied that the patient would have serious difficulty in obtaining any prescribed item from a pharmacy because of "distance or inadequancy of means of communication" and this will apply in only a very few exceptional cases. If you feel that you are covered by this exemption you should contact Emma Drew at the Anglia Support Partnership on 01223 477756 and return the "serious difficulty" form to Louise Watson, Assistant Directory, Primary Care, Peterborough Primary Care Trust, St. John's, Thorpe Road, Peterborough PE3 6JG.