NHS Pharmacy First in Sheffield › Broomhill & Sharrow Vale
The pharmacy on Broomhall Street sits within Broomhill and Sharrow Vale, so a Pharmacy First consultation is close to home for students, families and long-term residents alike.
Photo: Sheffield Botanical Gardens: User:JeremyA, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
Broomhill is on Sheffield's west side. The University of Sheffield, whose roots go back to the Sheffield Medical School of 1828, is on your doorstep, and Sheffield Botanical Gardens, a Grade II listed garden with 5,000 species of plants, sits just off Ecclesall Road. Weston Park, beside Weston Park Museum, is also close by.
Health care is part of the neighbourhood too. The Royal Hallamshire Hospital, a general and teaching hospital run by Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, faces Glossop Road nearby, and Broomhill Library on Taptonville Road is nearby. Between lectures, shifts, studying and the rest of a full week, the last thing most people here want is a pharmacy trip to fit in.
Local places and descriptions: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): Sheffield Botanical Gardens, University of Sheffield, Weston Park, Weston Park Museum, Royal Hallamshire Hospital. Community buildings: Google Maps.
Census 2021 figures: over 40% of residents in Broomhill & Sharrow Vale are aged 16 to 24, well above the Sheffield average; over 5% are aged 65 or over, below the Sheffield average; and over 35% of households have no car, above the Sheffield average.
If you are living away from home for the first time, you may not have a GP you know well yet. The seven Pharmacy First conditions are a good thing to know about, and the pharmacist can tell you when a GP is the better route.
Students and young adults can ask about sore throat from age 5 and about an uncomplicated urinary tract infection if they are women aged 16 to 64. The pharmacist will check the age limit that applies.
Near the centre of Broomhill & Sharrow Vale you will find Broomhill Surgery and Porter Brook Medical Centre. The nearest, Broomhill Surgery, is around 0.8 km away as the crow flies.
You do not have to change practice to ask the pharmacist about one of the seven conditions. If your GP is the right place, the pharmacist will say so.
The pharmacy providing this service for Broomhill & Sharrow Vale residents is Reliable Direct Pharmacy, based at 251 Broomhall Street, S3 7SP, within Broomhill & Sharrow Vale.
The pharmacist uses the NHS pathway for your condition to check that the service is right for you. Opening times for walk-in visits are Monday to Friday 9am to 6pm, closed Saturday and Sunday, and the number to ring is 0114 276 0150.
Depending on your symptoms, the outcome may be advice and self-care guidance, treatment where the NHS pathway allows, or a referral to a GP, NHS 111 or urgent care.
Whichever it is, the pharmacist tells you why and what to do next.
Genuine 5-star Google reviews of the pharmacy, shown exactly as written. They describe the pharmacy's service in general, not Pharmacy First.
“These guys are excellent. Used to have a real problem with prescriptions being late or needing doing again because the doctors and attached pharmacy seem to do everything they can to not communicate or work with each other! Since switching to reliable - an appropriate name - I haven't had a single struggle or late script. Cannot recommend enough ( and I live in Doncaster!)”
“Amazing! These guys are brilliant they go above and beyond to make sure their customers get a fast and reliable service They are better than my previous chemist in every way Mine and my husband's prescriptions are always there when they say they will be I have never had any problems I will always use this service Thanks so much.”
Source: Google. Rating and count as reported by Google at the time of publishing.
A quick call to the pharmacy will tell you about availability and opening times, and what to bring with you.
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None of this takes long to gather.
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The pharmacist speaks to you in confidence and takes you through what to expect.
Pharmacists can assess seven common conditions: sore throat from age 5, earache from age 1 up to 17, sinusitis from age 12, an infected insect bite from age 1, impetigo from age 1, shingles from age 18, and uncomplicated urinary tract infection in women aged 16 to 64.
Each has age limits and exclusions, which the pharmacist goes through with you. Outside them, or for anything else, you can still get advice and self-care guidance, and be pointed to the right place.
The consultation is free. If the pharmacist supplies a prescription medicine through the service, the usual NHS prescription charge applies unless you are exempt, for example if you are under 16 or aged 60 or over.
Yes. You do not have to live in a particular area. Please check availability with the pharmacy first.
You can ask the pharmacist about any of the seven conditions. Please confirm availability with the pharmacy and bring any information about your health that is relevant.
Telephone to check availability. Walk-ins may be possible in opening hours, with a short wait at busy times.
No. The pharmacist can deal with any of the seven conditions directly, and will tell you if a GP is the better route.
Not for the consultation. If a medicine is supplied, the usual NHS prescription charge applies unless you are exempt.
Some conditions are open to children. Ages differ, with earache from age 1 and sore throat from age 5, and the pharmacist will confirm.
They will send you to the right place, such as your GP, NHS 111 or urgent care, and explain why.
The pharmacy's walk-in hours are Monday to Friday 9am to 6pm, closed Saturday and Sunday. Please check with the pharmacy.
Walk-in opening times: Monday to Friday 9am to 6pm, closed Saturday and Sunday. The pharmacy delivers 7 days a week, and you can look up the pharmacy and its pharmacists on the GPhC register at pharmacyregulation.org.