{"id":175416,"date":"2025-10-02T15:29:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T15:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/175416\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T15:29:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T15:29:21","slug":"welsh-pharmacies-now-treating-utis-through-common-ailments-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/175416\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsh pharmacies now treating UTIs through Common Ailments Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/UTI-Tablets.jpg\" alt=\"Wrexham.com for people living in or visiting the Wrexham area\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Pharmacies across Wales are now able to treat urinary tract infections (UTI) as part of the Common Ailments Service.<\/p>\n<p>Ninety-nine percent of community pharmacies will provide free treatment without an appointment or prescription for the common infection.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t           &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t         &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Pharmacists can assess the symptoms of a UTI and provide appropriate advice and treatment where needed, providing access to free confidential NHS care without a GP appointment.<\/p>\n<p>Health Secretary Jeremy Miles said: \u201cCommunity pharmacies play a vital role in providing healthcare across Wales.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m delighted the Common Ailments Service, which is available in so many pharmacies across Wales, now includes the management of UTIs alongside our proven sore throat service.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a result of close collaboration between the Welsh Government, Community Pharmacy Wales, and NHS Wales.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese programmes are part of our commitment to ensure people can receive more convenient care closer to home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExpanding access to these services means even more people in Wales can access the right care, in the right place, at the right time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is the latest expansion of the Common Ailments Service and it follows the roll out of the award-winning sore throat test and treat service in June.<\/p>\n<p>It maximises the skills and expertise of pharmacists, increasing access to vital NHS care for 28 common conditions as we approach winter.<\/p>\n<p>Pharmacies in Wales provided nearly half a million common ailments service consultations in the last year.<\/p>\n<p>Spotted something? Got a story? Email <a href=\"https:\/\/wrexham.com\/news\/mailto:news@wrexham.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News@Wrexham.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Get notified about <br \/>news from across North Wales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pharmacies across Wales are now able to treat urinary tract infections (UTI) as part of the Common Ailments&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-175416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}