Take sick children to pharmacies first, parents told Parents of young children with minor illnesses should take them to pharmacies rather than GPs or A&E, a new NHS England campaign says.
It follows a survey which found just 6% of parents with under-fives would go to a pharmacist first.
NHS England said visits to GPs and A&E for these "self-treatable" conditions, like stomach ache, cost £850m a year.
But parents should not be put off seeing a doctor, a patients' group said.
GPs' leaders said parents of children with a very high temperature that doesn't go away should still seek help from a medical expert. BBC News
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It follows a survey which found just 6% of parents with under-fives would go to a pharmacist first.
NHS England said visits to GPs and A&E for these "self-treatable" conditions, like stomach ache, cost £850m a year.
But parents should not be put off seeing a doctor, a patients' group said.
GPs' leaders said parents of children with a very high temperature that doesn't go away should still seek help from a medical expert. BBC News
See also:
- Consider the pharmacist, but worried parents should trust their instinct, says College Royal College of General Practitioners
- Take your sick children to the pharmacy and not the GP, says NHS The Daily Telegraph
- Patients urged to think 'pharmacist first' to save millions of GP appointments GPonline
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