Homecare partnerships with your local pharmacy

One of the benefits of having a fully managed care service is the way that we can work with other health professionals such as district nurses, pharmacies and physios.  Often our clients are not able to visit their pharmacy and family members either live some distance away or find it difficult to make extra trips because of family and work commitments.  At Home Instead, we understand how important it is to make sure prescriptions are well managed and our care team are well-practiced at stepping to help manage this vital relationship with your local pharmacy.  This can be particularly important when in transition between hospital and home or if family members are on holiday.  Communication can be crucial at these times, and can be particularly difficult for people with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, so clients find peace of mind in the fact it is all taken care of and by asking the right questions, we can help clients to understand what their medication is for and help them to manage it better.

Some clients do like to speak to a pharmacist in person so our Care Professionals regularly take clients to their pharmacy to facilitate the discussion, to arrange tests such as blood pressure tests or to receive vaccinations such as the winter flu jab.  Whatever the need, our care pros and office team provide the safety net.  Here are a few more of the things we can do so that you can get the most out of your local pharmacy:

 

• Ordering clients’ medication
• Obtaining advice about medication from pharmacists
• Taking clients to speak with pharmacists
• Using pharmacies to test urine samples for clients
• With GP instruction, changing the form or type of medication
• Buying continence products
• Finding out when medication is due to be delivered
• Returning un-used medication
• Buying over the counter medication
• Purchasing covid tests

Case Study

A client was given whole tablets with a prescribed dose of half a tablet to be given daily.  Her regular pharmacy refused to cut them as it takes up too much time, but as caregivers, we cannot cut medication, so we then had to look around to find a pharmacy that would do this. It took a while to find one that would do this for her, but it was well worth the effort and after finally finding a pharmacy that would pre-cut them our client moved to that pharmacy for all of her medication, giving peace of mind to our client and saving a lot of time for the family.

At Home Instead we are proud to enhance the care service we offer clients by working in partnership with pharmacies across Stourbridge, Hagley, Halesowen, Belbroughton and Clent.

 

Pharmacy	POST CODE	Phone
The Glebeland Surgery	DY9 9TH	01562 730303
Boots, Wollaston	DY8 3NX	01384 395592
Boots, Stourbridge	DY8 4HZ	01384 395617
Murrays Healthcare	B63 4AG	0121 585 1255
Hawne Pharmacy Halesowen	B63 3UD	0121 501 3518
Grange Pharmacy Halesowen	B62 0HN	0121 422 2226
Manor pharmacy Halesowen	B62 8PY	0121 421 7487
County Pharmacy.  Wordsley Green	DY8 5PD	01384 270781
Well Pharmacy Hagley	DY9 0NJ	01562 882472
Swinford Pharmacy Oldswinford	DY8 2JH	01384 440030
STOURBRIDGE Pharmacy	DY8 3SS	01384 377123
Murrays at Lion Heath Stourbridge	DY8 3SS	01384 442138
Wychbury Pharmacy, Wollascote	DY9 9DS	01562 882743
Halesowen Pharmacy	B63 3AW	0121 550 1374
Lye pharmacy 365	DY9 8LF	01384 422001
Brierley Hill health and social centre	DY5 1RU	01384 321222
Grange Pharmacy Halesowen	B62 0HN	0121 422 2226
Lion health Stourbridge	DY8 3SS	01384 460111
Manor Pharmacy – Halesown	B62 8PY	0121 421 7487
Warley medical Centre – Oldbury	B68 0RT	0121 421 8400