Going for your weekly food shop?
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Going for your weekly food shop?
It’s quick, easy and simple to stock up on medicines and vitamins that are no longer prescribed by GPs at your local pharmacy or supermarket.
Visit www.staffsstokeics.org.uk/over-the-counter for more info

In March 2018, NHSE published guidance called ‘Conditions for which over the counter (OTC) items should not be routinely prescribed in primary care’.
This guidance listed 35 conditions, plus probiotics and vitamins and minerals, as areas where self care may be more appropriate.
In Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent, the spend for these items in primary care is over £13.6 million each