Contraception services are free and confidential, including for people under the age of 16.
If you're under 16 and want contraception, this is a confidential service and we will not inform your parents (or carer) as long as we believe you fully understand the information you're given, and your decisions.
*Only available to under 25's. Conditions apply. Please contact us for further information.
You will be given a booster dose of a vaccine made by Pfizer, Moderna or Sanofi and approved in the UK. These vaccines have been updated since the original vaccines and target different COVID-19 variants. For a very small number of people another vaccine product may be advised by your doctor.
These updated vaccines boost protection well, and give slightly higher levels of antibody against the more recent strains of COVID-19 (Omicron) than the vaccines you would have received previously. As we cannot predict which variants of COVID-19 will be circulating this spring and summer, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has concluded that all of these vaccines can be used and that no one should delay vaccination to receive a different vaccine.
The Sanofi vaccine contains an adjuvant (a chemical used to improve the immune response to the virus). This vaccine will only be offered to older people, who may respond less well to vaccines. The adjuvant in the COVID-19 vaccine is similar to the one used in the flu vaccine which is routinely given to over 65 year olds. The NHS website has more information about vaccine ingredients.
There is no need to book. Vaccinations are available Tuesday and Wednesday between 10am-4pm. If you would prefer to book your vaccination please do so via the NHS website or alternatively call 119.
We dispense NHS prescriptions (paper and electronic) and will give advice on how to get the most benefit from your medicines. We keep a comprehensive stock of medicines and use a fast and an efficient wholesaler service to enable us to dispense all prescriptions promptly.
We can also dispense NHS repeat dispensing prescriptions. Please contact our Pharmacy Team for more information about this service.
Please return all unwanted medicines to the pharmacy where we will dispose of them safely.
We can provide the ‘Morning After Pill’ or Emergency Hormonal Contraception (EHC) service as an emergency measure to prevent unwanted pregnancy. Generally, this is free for those under 30.
Please speak, in confidence, with our Pharmacist they will be able to advise if EHC is suitable for you. This service is subject to staff availability. Please call ahead to arrange a time to come in.
If you need one of your regular prescribed medicines in an emergency, when you are unable to contact your doctor, we may be able to help. This can only be done in genuine emergencies and when your surgery is shut.
Please call 111 and ask for a NUMSAS referral to our pharmacy. After giving them your details, be sure to ring us before coming in and one of our pharmacists will do their best to help.
We operate a free medication delivery service. Please contact our Pharmacy Team for more information about this service.
If you’re between 40 and 74 and live in the UK, you should have a health check which we can do at our pharmacy.
The health check should take around 45 minutes. A healthcare professional, will ask you a series of simple questions about your lifestyle and family history. The check is nothing to worry about and you won’t be asked any embarrassing questions.
You can also expect:
- A blood pressure test
- A cholesterol test
- Your weight and height measured
The Health Check focuses on:
- Heart disease
- Diabetes
- Strokes
- Kidney disease
If you are over 65, you will also be told the signs of dementia to look out for.
After your blood pressure test and BMI results, our advisor will be happy to offer lifestyle advice or suggest you visit your GP, if needed. They might offer ideas on how to:
- Improve your diet
- Increase your levels or frequency of physical exercise
At Link Pharmacy we have a number of experienced Pharmacists and registered Technicians who are able to advise on the use of medicine compliance aids (MCA). We offer a number of products that can help you take your medicines more easily.
To discuss this further please contact Martin Jones MCA Manager.
This is a medicine check-up service, which is useful if you regularly take several prescription medicines or are on medicines for a long- term condition. This confidential NHS service will help you to find out about your medicines, identify any problems you may be having with them and help you to take your medicines to best effect.
Please contact the Pharmacist for more information or to arrange a consultation.
We keep a wide range of over the counter medicines and related products. Our staff members can help you to select the most appropriate products for your needs.
The Common Ailments Scheme is a service for anyone who is registered with a GP in West Kent who doesn’t pay for NHS prescriptions. This includes children. It enables them to get advice and some medications free of charge from their pharmacy.
Common ailments treated under this scheme:
- cold sores
- conjunctivitis
- constipation
- cough
- cystitis
- diarrhoea
- earache
- fever
- fungal skin infections
- headache
- head lice
- hay fever
- indigestion
- insect bites / stings
- mild eczema / dry skin
- nasal congestion
- sore throat
- sprains/strains
- threadworms
- vaginal thrush
Eligible groups for the 2023 to 2024 season;
- pregnant women
- all those aged 65 years and over
- those in long-stay residential care homes
- carers, those in receipt of carer’s allowance or main carer of an older or disabled person
- household contacts of immunocompromised individuals
- frontline health and social care staff
We provide a needle exchange service where intravenous drug users can obtain clean sterile needles and syringes and safely dispose of used needles and syringes.
This service is designed to prevent people sharing or re using needles. It also reduces drug related harm and the transmission of blood borne bacterial and viral infections such as hepatitis B and C or HIV.
The service is lead by our Pharmacist in a non-judgemental manner and may lead to the user being referred to an appropriate drug treatment programme i.e. opioid substitute treatment in order to stop drug usage . Our Pharmacist can also advise on minimising the harms caused by drugs and suggest further support and help.
When you are prescribed a medicine to treat a long-term condition for the first time, the pharmacist will support you to use the medicine safely and to best effect.
Our pharmacist will talk to you approximately two weeks after you first receive the medicine to see how you are getting on with it and to discuss any problems you may have. A second follow- up will be a month after you first receive the medicine. The service is only available to people using certain medicines. Our pharmacist will give you details and offer this free NHS service, if this is available to you.
We keep records of all your prescriptions dispensed by us as well as records of other services we provide to you. This helps us check for possible problems, such as reactions between medicines and will help us deal with any queries you may have.
We offer a free prescription collection service from selected local general practices and we can also deliver prescriptions to your home. Ask us for more information about this service.
Our Pharmacist and trained assistants are available to provide advise on how to stop smoking.
We provide FREE comprehensive support including:
- Provision of behavioural support to patients attempting to stop smoking
- Supply of medicines for stopping smoking including Varenicline (Champix), Patches, Gums and Inhalators
- Carbon Monoxide monitoring to see how smoking is affecting your Health
This service is subject to staff availability. Please call ahead to arrange a time to come in or to find out more.
Contraception services are free and confidential, including for people under the age of 16.
If you're under 16 and want contraception, this is a confidential service and we will not inform your parents (or carer) as long as we believe you fully understand the information you're given, and your decisions.
*Only available to under 25's. Conditions apply. Please contact us for further information.
You will be given a booster dose of a vaccine made by Pfizer, Moderna or Sanofi and approved in the UK. These vaccines have been updated since the original vaccines and target different COVID-19 variants. For a very small number of people another vaccine product may be advised by your doctor.
These updated vaccines boost protection well, and give slightly higher levels of antibody against the more recent strains of COVID-19 (Omicron) than the vaccines you would have received previously. As we cannot predict which variants of COVID-19 will be circulating this spring and summer, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has concluded that all of these vaccines can be used and that no one should delay vaccination to receive a different vaccine.
The Sanofi vaccine contains an adjuvant (a chemical used to improve the immune response to the virus). This vaccine will only be offered to older people, who may respond less well to vaccines. The adjuvant in the COVID-19 vaccine is similar to the one used in the flu vaccine which is routinely given to over 65 year olds. The NHS website has more information about vaccine ingredients.
There is no need to book. Vaccinations are available Tuesday and Wednesday between 10am-4pm. If you would prefer to book your vaccination please do so via the NHS website or alternatively call 119.
We dispense NHS prescriptions (paper and electronic) and will give advice on how to get the most benefit from your medicines. We keep a comprehensive stock of medicines and use a fast and an efficient wholesaler service to enable us to dispense all prescriptions promptly.
We can also dispense NHS repeat dispensing prescriptions. Please contact our Pharmacy Team for more information about this service.
Please return all unwanted medicines to the pharmacy where we will dispose of them safely.
We can provide the ‘Morning After Pill’ or Emergency Hormonal Contraception (EHC) service as an emergency measure to prevent unwanted pregnancy. Generally, this is free for those under 30.
Please speak, in confidence, with our Pharmacist they will be able to advise if EHC is suitable for you. This service is subject to staff availability. Please call ahead to arrange a time to come in.
If you need one of your regular prescribed medicines in an emergency, when you are unable to contact your doctor, we may be able to help. This can only be done in genuine emergencies and when your surgery is shut.
Please call 111 and ask for a NUMSAS referral to our pharmacy. After giving them your details, be sure to ring us before coming in and one of our pharmacists will do their best to help.
We operate a free medication delivery service. Please contact our Pharmacy Team for more information about this service.
If you’re between 40 and 74 and live in the UK, you should have a health check which we can do at our pharmacy.
The health check should take around 45 minutes. A healthcare professional, will ask you a series of simple questions about your lifestyle and family history. The check is nothing to worry about and you won’t be asked any embarrassing questions.
You can also expect:
- A blood pressure test
- A cholesterol test
- Your weight and height measured
The Health Check focuses on:
- Heart disease
- Diabetes
- Strokes
- Kidney disease
If you are over 65, you will also be told the signs of dementia to look out for.
After your blood pressure test and BMI results, our advisor will be happy to offer lifestyle advice or suggest you visit your GP, if needed. They might offer ideas on how to:
- Improve your diet
- Increase your levels or frequency of physical exercise
At Link Pharmacy we have a number of experienced Pharmacists and registered Technicians who are able to advise on the use of medicine compliance aids (MCA). We offer a number of products that can help you take your medicines more easily.
To discuss this further please contact Martin Jones MCA Manager.
This is a medicine check-up service, which is useful if you regularly take several prescription medicines or are on medicines for a long- term condition. This confidential NHS service will help you to find out about your medicines, identify any problems you may be having with them and help you to take your medicines to best effect.
Please contact the Pharmacist for more information or to arrange a consultation.
We keep a wide range of over the counter medicines and related products. Our staff members can help you to select the most appropriate products for your needs.
The Common Ailments Scheme is a service for anyone who is registered with a GP in West Kent who doesn’t pay for NHS prescriptions. This includes children. It enables them to get advice and some medications free of charge from their pharmacy.
Common ailments treated under this scheme:
- cold sores
- conjunctivitis
- constipation
- cough
- cystitis
- diarrhoea
- earache
- fever
- fungal skin infections
- headache
- head lice
- hay fever
- indigestion
- insect bites / stings
- mild eczema / dry skin
- nasal congestion
- sore throat
- sprains/strains
- threadworms
- vaginal thrush
Eligible groups for the 2023 to 2024 season;
- pregnant women
- all those aged 65 years and over
- those in long-stay residential care homes
- carers, those in receipt of carer’s allowance or main carer of an older or disabled person
- household contacts of immunocompromised individuals
- frontline health and social care staff
We provide a needle exchange service where intravenous drug users can obtain clean sterile needles and syringes and safely dispose of used needles and syringes.
This service is designed to prevent people sharing or re using needles. It also reduces drug related harm and the transmission of blood borne bacterial and viral infections such as hepatitis B and C or HIV.
The service is lead by our Pharmacist in a non-judgemental manner and may lead to the user being referred to an appropriate drug treatment programme i.e. opioid substitute treatment in order to stop drug usage . Our Pharmacist can also advise on minimising the harms caused by drugs and suggest further support and help.
When you are prescribed a medicine to treat a long-term condition for the first time, the pharmacist will support you to use the medicine safely and to best effect.
Our pharmacist will talk to you approximately two weeks after you first receive the medicine to see how you are getting on with it and to discuss any problems you may have. A second follow- up will be a month after you first receive the medicine. The service is only available to people using certain medicines. Our pharmacist will give you details and offer this free NHS service, if this is available to you.
We keep records of all your prescriptions dispensed by us as well as records of other services we provide to you. This helps us check for possible problems, such as reactions between medicines and will help us deal with any queries you may have.
We offer a free prescription collection service from selected local general practices and we can also deliver prescriptions to your home. Ask us for more information about this service.
Our Pharmacist and trained assistants are available to provide advise on how to stop smoking.
We provide FREE comprehensive support including:
- Provision of behavioural support to patients attempting to stop smoking
- Supply of medicines for stopping smoking including Varenicline (Champix), Patches, Gums and Inhalators
- Carbon Monoxide monitoring to see how smoking is affecting your Health
This service is subject to staff availability. Please call ahead to arrange a time to come in or to find out more.
Maidstone
Kent
ME14 1BH