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Service Description of Walk-in Centres
At all the Walk-in Centres you can get healthcare information, including advice and treatment for minor illnesses, such as coughs and colds. Also care, dressing and stitching of cuts and other minor injuries.
Not all Walk-in Centres offer all the same services, so it’s best to check what your local centre provides. Most centres will offer the following:
- Information about local GP’s, other NHS services and local pharmacy services,
- Blood pressure checks,
- Contraceptive advice, including providing condoms, emergency contraception and pregnancy testing,
- Advice and treatment for hayfever, bites and stings,
- Health advice about diet, exercise, and quitting smoking, and how to get help with this,
- Advice on muscle and joint injuries, including strains and sprains,
- Advice on the treatment of rashes, sunburn and head lice,
- Advice on the treatment of indigestion, constipation, vomiting and diarrhoea, and
- Advice on women’s health problems , such as periods, thrush etc.
- Advice on men’s health problems, such as prostate enlargement
Nurses in some centres can prescribe a wide range of medication, including the pill, painkillers and antihistamines. Unless you are exempt(for example, you are on income support or job seekers allowance, under 19 in full time education or pregnant) you will be charged for the prescription.
