Superdrug expands mole clinics nationally
Superdrug is to launch mole
clinics in 20 stores across Great Britain this year.
The new service, which has been piloted in three central London stores,
is to be expanded in May to coincide with Sun
Awareness Week, which starts
on 7 May. In the first phase, Superdrug will employ 15 specialist nurses
to run the clinics.
The clinics will operate as a franchise of the MOLE
clinic, a private
company based in London’s Harley Street.
Nurse specialists will offer mole checks, priced from £45 for a
single mole plus £15 for each additional mole, using a digital
dermoscopy technique that is able to examine beneath the surface of a
mole.
Any suspect cases will be referred to secondary care in accordance with
guidelines published by the National Institute for Health and Clinical
Excellence and the British Association of Dermatologists.
Superdrug’s superintendent pharmacist, Martin Crisp, said: “Our
trial with mole clinics in three stores has proved an immediate success.”
He added that the pilots had resulted in a couple of cases of early melanoma
being identified.
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