The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 No 7415 p242
26 August 2006

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Pharmacies in Wales are a well used health resource

Pharmacies are a more commonly used health resource in Wales than dentists or opticians, data published this week suggest.

The latest results of the National Assembly for Wales’s health survey show that, in 2004–05, 80 per cent of adults in Wales visited a community pharmacy in the previous 12 months and 68 per cent had visited one at least twice. In comparison, 76 per cent had visited a dentist and 54 per cent had visited an optician over the same period.

Overall, women were more likely to have been to a pharmacy in the previous year than men (86 per cent as against 72 per cent of men) and women aged 25–34 years were the group most likely to have done so (90 per cent).