Babela

[greggs]

Supermarket pharmacists will be selling ventolin soon this should have happened years ago it would have saved a lot of people struggling to get meds when needed urgently.

[PMRPete]

That news is just over 6 years old!

bbc.co.uk/news/health-18936197

[greggs in reply to PMRPete]

Is the information correct can you buy inhalers.

[PMRPete in reply to greggs]

YES!

pharmaceutical-journal.com/...

"Asda has become the first retail pharmacy in the UK to make salbutamol inhalers available without a prescription under a private patient group direction.

Pharmacists across all of its stores will, from tomorrow (24 July 2012), be able to provide the inhalers to patients under a private PGD at a cost of £7 for two inhalers — undercutting the prescription fee in England by 65p."

[Chip_y2kuk in reply to PMRPete]

They stopped doing it as it was quite restrictive on who they could sell it too.. had to be mild asthma no more than step 2 etc etc

[PMRPete in reply to Chip_y2kuk]

pharmica.uk/asthma/ventolin

onlinedoctor.superdrug.com/...

[Chip_y2kuk in reply to PMRPete]

Sorry I meant asda at least my local store but the woman i spoke to mad out it was asda as a whole

[strongmouse in reply to PMRPete]

I was going to tick "like" but then thought about it and it seems it is part of the whole privatising health by stealth.

It is good that it is available to people if GP's refuse to prescribe it, but then it is an expensive for anyone on low income or entitled to free prescriptions, and has no monitoring of those who may need different medication for health reasons.

[greggs in reply to strongmouse]

Got a point but for a emergency if lost or overused need one quickly it's a lifesaver if chemists sell them that's all.