Pharmacies in South Wales provide blood pressure testing
Ninety community pharmacies across Pembrokeshire, Cardiganshire and Carmarthenshire
recently provided free blood pressure testing and follow-up tests to patients
as part of Stroke Awareness Week.
Organised by the Pembrokeshire Pharmacy Forum and the Stroke Association,
the scheme, which took place last month, follows the success of a similar
service provided by community pharmacies in Pembrokeshire during Stroke
Awareness Week last year (PJ, 15 September 2001, p342).
This year an extra 60 community pharmacies provided the service and an
average of 30–40 patients per pharmacy had their blood pressure tested.
According to Jon David, a community pharmacist and secretary of Pembrokeshire
Pharmacy Forum, the scheme was a good example of how community pharmacies
could be galvanised to provide a unified service (see p562).
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