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Free blood pressure check at Tescos
July1962
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http://www.tesco.com/health/pharmacy/pharmacy_services/blood_pressure_check.page?
"Three easy steps
1. Ask at the Pharmacy if you are interested in making an appointment – you may be able to have one straight away.
2. Download and fill in the Blood pressure check form and bring it with you to your appointment.
3. Your results will be explained to you and you’ll be given advice on how to reduce or
maintain your blood pressure levels. If the reading is high it will be re-checked and, if appropriate, you may be referred to your doctor."
"Three easy steps
1. Ask at the Pharmacy if you are interested in making an appointment – you may be able to have one straight away.
2. Download and fill in the Blood pressure check form and bring it with you to your appointment.
3. Your results will be explained to you and you’ll be given advice on how to reduce or
maintain your blood pressure levels. If the reading is high it will be re-checked and, if appropriate, you may be referred to your doctor."
It's nice to be important.....but it's more important to be nice 
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ASDA's with pharmacy do it also0
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Just make sure you get it done before you get to the till and find out how much your groceries are going to set you back this week.The fridge is empty, the walls are damp, there's no hot water
And I look like a tramp and tramps like us
Baby we were born to walk0 -
Also free at your own doctors, think I know which I would prefer to go to!Don`t steal - the Government doesn`t like the competition0
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Most pharmacies offer this service provided they have enough staff at the time of asking.0
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My optician reccommended I get a chlolestrol check and my Doctor told me they usually do it free at pharmacies and that if it is high and they give me a letter, then to go back to him. So not at my Doctors they don't.Also free at your own doctors, think I know which I would prefer to go to!Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination:beer:
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buxtonrabbitgreen wrote: »My optician reccommended I get a chlolestrol check and my Doctor told me they usually do it free at pharmacies and that if it is high and they give me a letter, then to go back to him. So not at my Doctors they don't.
I would say that is highly unusual, if not actually breaking their PCT contract, it is a health check,(usually done by a practice nurse) and would be done for a newly registered patient at any practice as the "new patients health check".
I would contact your local PCT and find out if your doctor has an obligation to administer this.Don`t steal - the Government doesn`t like the competition0
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