Pharmacies

Pharmacies can help you manage your medicines. This can help if you have a long-term health condition such as diabetes, heart disease or a lung condition. They can help advise if you take a lot of different medicines or sometimes forget to take your medicines.

Pharmacy services can also include time with your pharmacist, yellow cards, medicine charts or calendars, reminders for repeat prescriptions and aids such as weekly or monthly blister packs.

Heathpoint has a list of pharmacies. You can filter by the services they provide. This includes pharmacies that can:

• provide the emergency contraceptive pill — Healthpointexternal link
• provide nicotine replacement therapy, such as patches, gum and lozenges — Healthpointexternal link
• take any expired or unwanted medicines, or needles — Healthpointexternal link
• help with incontinence — Healthpointexternal link
• prescribe antibiotics for urinary tract infections (UTIs) — Healthpointexternal link
• give COVID-19 antiviral medicines — Healthpointexternal link
• give some immunisations — Healthpointexternal link
• prescribe medicine for erection problems — Healthpointexternal link

Most prescribed medicines are subsidised by the Government. You may have to pay for medicines that are not fully subsidised. 

Prescription charges, the prescription subsidy scheme, and charges for other medicines

Charges may apply 

Some services, such as blister packs and home deliveries, may have a charge. Prices can vary, so ask your pharmacy what their cost is. If you are not sure, ask the pharmacy to explain any unexpected charges and how you can avoid them.

There is usually no charge for health advice from a pharmacist.