Gowerton Pharmacy

03/11/2025

This week is Medication Safety Week 2025!

This year’s theme is: We can all help to make medicines safer.

Medication Safety Week is a time to raise awareness on reporting suspected side effects and issues with medicines and medical devices.

The Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency encourages healthcare professionals, patients, caregivers and the public to report adverse reactions to medicines and medical devices using the Yellow Card Scheme.

The Yellow Card scheme relies on voluntary reporting to prevent future harm to others.

More information:

Medication Safety Week 2025: https://www.gov.uk/drug-safety-update/number-medsafetyweek-3-9-november-2025-a-call-to-action-to-improve-patient-safety

The Yellow Card Scheme: https://yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk/about-yellow-card

What can be reported through the Yellow Card Scheme: https://yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk/what-to-report

25/10/2025

Update: Those who are 28+ weeks pregnant can also drop-in to our pop up clinics for their RSV vaccination.

👃Has your child missed their Fluenz nasal spray appointment?

It’s almost flu season, and several thousand children have already received their Fluenz nasal spray this year.

If your child has been unable to attend their Fluenz nasal spray appointment at their GP surgery or at schools already visited by the school nursing team, there’s another opportunity to get them protected.

This October half term, our immunisation team will be running pop-up Fluenz clinics in the Swansea Bay UHB area, for children aged 2-16 years old.

No appointment needed – just drop in!

This year, flu is likely to arrive earlier than usual, so it is important to get protected as soon as possible, as flu can spread quickly.

📅Our half term Fluenz pop-up schedule – no appointment needed, just drop in:

Tuesday 28th October - Dementia Hwb, The Quadrant Shopping Centre, Swansea, SA1 3QW. 10:00am – 4:00pm.

Tuesday 28th October - Canolfan Gorseinon Centre, Millers Drive, Gorseinon, Swansea, SA4 4QN. 10:00am – 4:00pm.

Wednesday 29th October - Aberafan Shopping Centre, Local Vaccination Centre, Unit 30D East Mall (next to B&M), Port Talbot, SA13 1PB. 9:30am – 4:30pm.

Wednesday 29th October - Morfa Shopping Park car park, Brunel Way, Bon-y-maen, Swansea, SA1 7BP. 10:00am – 4:00pm.

Thursday 30th October - Parc Tawe Car Park – Ninja Warrior, Parc Tawe Retail Park, Quay Parade, Swansea, SA1 2AS. 10:00am – 4:00pm.

Thursday 30th October - Unit 6 creche (next door to the library), Water Street, Neath, SA11 3EP. 10:00am – 4:00pm.

Friday 31st October – Pontardawe Wellbeing Hub, Works Road, Pontardawe, Swansea, SA8 4AF. 10:30am – 4:00pm.

The flu vaccine has been used safely for decades, and last year over 245,000 children aged 2-16 years old in Wales were protected against flu through the Fluenz nasal spray vaccine.

The nasal spray vaccine is safe and painless, with one quick spray helping to keep children healthy this winter, with most children protected within 14 days.

We look forward to seeing you and any further information you require, please contact SBU.Imms@wales.nhs.uk or come to any of the clinics for a chat.

16/10/2025

09/10/2025

02/10/2025

Flu vaccines available at Gowerton Pharmacy. Call us now on 01792873001 or just walk in!

🍂 ❄️💉 It’s time to roll up your sleeves - this year's annual flu vaccination programme has begun!

Remember: Flu isn’t a heavy cold, it’s a highly infectious disease. For some, flu can lead to hospitalisation, permanent disability or even death.

Last year’s vaccine won’t protect you now – the flu virus keeps changing, so the vaccine must too. Getting the flu vaccination is the best way to ensure you remain fit and well this winter while protecting those around you.

❓ Who gets it?
• children aged two and three years on 31 August 2025
• school aged children from reception to year 11 (inclusive)
• people aged 6 months to 64 years in a clinical risk group
• people aged 65 years and older (age on 31 March 2026)
• all adult residents in Welsh prisons
• pregnant women
• carers of a person whose health or welfare may be at risk if the carer falls ill
• frontline health and social care workers
• people experiencing homelessness
• household contacts of the immunocompromised
• poultry workers

📅 When will I receive a vaccine?
For adults the autumn/winter flu programme will run from Wednesday 1st October 2025 until the end of January 2026.

With the exception of pregnant women who could receive their vaccine from September.

The vaccination programme for children also began in September 2025.

📨 How and when will I hear?
Those eligible for the flu vaccination will either be given an appointment by your GP surgery or you can visit your community pharmacy. Please check pharmacy for local arrangements.

The appointment being offered is for this year's flu vaccination.

You may hear from us towards the early part of October.

But don’t worry if you don’t hear from us straight away, appointments will be given as we work through the eligibility groups.

Ideally, you should receive your vaccine before the end of November, however if you become pregnant after this time, or are diagnosed with a condition making you eligible for a flu vaccine, you can still receive your vaccine up until March 2026.

There is no need to contact your GP surgery or the health board. If you are eligible, you will be sent an appointment.

If you are a resident in a care home, or housebound, your vaccination will be offered either by primary care providers or the immunisation team.

❌ How can I cancel or change my appointment?
If you are unable to make your appointment, please refer to your invitation letter for details on how you can rearrange.

If you wish to have further information on this, please contact 01792 200492. We appreciate our telephone lines may be busy at times, and apologise for this in advance.

🚸 How will children and young people be offered the vaccine?

Children and young people aged 2-3 years old, and those in reception class all the way to year 11, will be offered the fluenz nasal spray.

Eligible children aged 2 and 3 years old will primarily receive their vaccine from their GP surgery.

The school nursing team will offer the vaccine to all children attending primary and secondary school.

If you are a parent or guardian of a child not attending school, please contact your GP surgery to arrange vaccination.

Further information about the autumn/winter 2025 flu programme will be added to this page as and when it becomes available - https://sbuhb.nhs.wales/vaccinations-in-swansea-and-neath-port-talbot1/vaccine-information/flu-vaccinations-autumnwinter-2025/

02/10/2025

25/09/2025

23/09/2025

The Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency confirm that taking paracetamol during pregnancy remains safe and there is no evidence it causes autism in children.

Read more in their latest update.

➡️ https://www.gov.uk/government/news/mhra-confirms-taking-paracetamol-during-pregnancy-remains-safe-and-there-is-no-evidence-it-causes-autism-in-children

20/08/2025

Gluten Free Sliced White Loaf for sale £1.99 each or £5 for a box of 4. Expiry 26/08/2025

17/07/2025

Gluten free seeded bread for sale, £1.99 each
Exp Date: 22nd July 2025