{"id":66,"date":"2024-05-15T17:16:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T16:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-lothian\/nhs-borders\/unscheduled-care\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T17:02:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T16:02:29","slug":"unscheduled-care","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-lothian\/pages\/unscheduled-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Unscheduled Care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Community pharmacy service developments have led to pharmacies becoming an important access route for people requiring unscheduled care, particularly over weekends and public holidays. Such service developments include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/unscheduled-care\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The National Patient Group Direction (PGD) for the Urgent Supply of Repeat Medicines and Appliances<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Community Pharmacy Direct Referral\/Prof to Prof communication options with GP OOH services*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>NHS Scotland Pharmacy First and Pharmacy First Plus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>* The NHS Lothian Unscheduled Care Service&nbsp;Professional-to-Professional contact number&nbsp;can be found in your&nbsp;Unscheduled Care&nbsp;folder in the pharmacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Useful Info and Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cps.scot\/national-1\/unscheduled-care-cpus\">Community Pharmacy Scotland &#8211; Unscheduled Care<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last updated 13\/05\/25 EBR<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nhsuk-card__description\">Community pharmacy service developments have led to pharmacies becoming an important access route for people requiring unscheduled care, particularly over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":31,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-66","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-lothian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-lothian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-lothian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-lothian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-lothian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-lothian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670,"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-lothian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions\/670"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-lothian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communitypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk\/nhs-lothian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}