Public Health Service

Page last updated September 2023

The Public Health Service (PHS) is one of the four core community pharmacy services and currently consists of 4 elements:

  1. Ensuring that there is a health-promoting environment in the pharmacy – including promoting national campaigns using a combination of window posters, promotional materials and staff training (e.g. raising awareness of bowel cancer screening, flu vaccination uptake, hydration etc.)
  2. Offering a sexual health service (EHC)
  3. Offering a smoking cessation service
  4. Offering access to prophylactic paracetamol for childhood vaccinations where appropriate

The Public Health Service aims to:

  1. Promote and support a pro-active approach to self-care and keeping well
  2. Make use of windows/frontage and/or display space in pharmacies to promote health
  3. Provide access to appropriate health education information, materials and support
  4. Contribute to the preventative health agenda
  5. Offer opportunistic interventions to promote health

Further Details on this service can be found on CPS website

Community Pharmacy: Public Health Service Provision of Prophylactic Antipyretic (Paracetamol) following Meningococcal Group B Vaccine and other childhood vaccines

Letter to all Community Pharmacies in NHS Lanarkshire and PCA(P)(2015) 25 Circular (Added 1 October 2015)

Community Pharmacy: Public Health Service Emergency Hormonal Contraception (EHC) Updated Directions and Service Specification

Letter to all Community Pharmacies in NHS Lanarkshire and PCA(P)(2015)20

Please find below NHS Lanarkshire documentation to support the Public Health Service.