A Medicines User Review is a free NHS service offered by many pharmacies including Pearl Chemist Group.  Our Medicines User Review service offers a private consultation where we can meet a patient to discuss their medication.  This is an opportunity to ask any questions and understand why certain medicines have been prescribed and how they should be stored.

How does medication user review benefit patients?

There are lots of advantages to this free and confidential service and these includes:-

  • an opportunity to ask questions about different medications and why they have been prescribed
  • A chance to gain a greater understanding of how certain medicines work
  • A review provides a forum to discuss side effects and the long term use of certain drugs
  • The patient may feel that certain medicines are no longer necessary in which case the pharmacist can signpost them back to their GP
  • Patients
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