Thackers Pharmacy - Manchester

Wythenshawe MP Paul Goggins visits Thackers Pharmacy

On Thursday 1st April MP Paul Goggins visited us at Thackers Pharmacy. We invited him to show the work we have done and to hear our "support your local pharmacy campaign" after coming under threat by the opening of the Baguley Tesco 100 hour Pharmacy.

We discussed the current 100 hour exemption threat and how this is a real threat to Independent Pharmacies. Also discussed was the flu pandemic and our contribution being an antiviral collection point, the services which our pharmacy provides. It was a great opportunity to provide evidence for the government to show how accessible community pharmacies are for long term health conditions, smoking cessation, weight management and many other health conditions.

Click here to see the article on the tesco 100 hour application

Radio 2 DJ Mark Radcliffe to relaunch the pharmacy on Wednesday December 2nd at 2pm

To relaunch our pharmacy we have set up a charity raffle with great prizes like the entire CSI series on DVD, a Toni and Guy haircut, a sports massage, lots of babyliss products plus many more prizes. All the proceeds will go to the North West Lung Centre at Wythenshawe Hospital. Radio 2 DJ Mark Radcliffe, most famously known from part of the “Mark and Lard” act on Piccadilly key 103 and Radio 1, will be cutting the red ribbon with our oldest serving customers at 2pm this wednesday.

Please feel free to join us and whilst here get involved in the raffle. Remember its for charity!

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Shadow Minister for Health visits Thackers Pharmacy

Tuesday, 06 October 2009 13:04 Sunil Thacker Sunil's blog

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Whilst in Manchester for the Conservative Conference, Mark Simmonds, the Shadow Minister for Health, visited us at Thackers Pharmacy to discuss the current situation in pharmacy. Several issues were raised including:

The role of pharmacy in providing additional services to patients, with particular reference to our oral contraception service where patients do not need to see the GP
Results of the cardiovascular checks undertook by many pharmacies across Manchester including Thackers Pharmacy
The changes in our profession with an increase in clinical services aswell as the dispensing role
The importance of pharmacy being the only healthcare professional where an appointment is not required for patients.
How to tackle the excess waste of medication stock piled at patients homes

Mark Simmonds is to launch the "Ask your pharmacist week" running from November 9th-15th 2009 in Parliament on 4th November with a focus on promoting key services through pharmacies, which are allergy screening, chlamydia testing and treatment, health checks, medicine use reviews, minor ailments schemes, stop smoking services and supplementary prescribing.

At the moment at Thackers Pharmacy we provide chlamydia testing and treatment, health checks, medicine use reviews and stop smoking services. We are looking into providing a minor ailment scheme in the near future.