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Diagnostics

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Vaginal health screening tampon available at boots.com

Diagnostic device collects more vaginal fluid than a standard swab improving reliability and comfort.

23 Apr 2024

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Lean into the screen

The early detection of health conditions is often crucial to successful treatment and maintaining long term health. This feature explores how the pharmacy can become the place patients turn to for testing.

08 Feb 2024

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Running diagnostics in the pharmacy

Discover how such such services in the pharmacy go beyond a customer simply taking a test.

14 Feb 2022

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Access to answers

Pharmacy-based diagnostic services continue to improve customers' accessibility to healthcare.

12 Feb 2021

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Understanding clinical test results

How can the results of clinical tests and their implications be clearly explained to patients? We offer some pointers.

19 Jan 2021

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Identification and intervention

Pharmacy teams provide health screening services and testing kits, but there's potential to do more.

26 May 2020

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The management of prediabetes

This module provides an overview of prediabetes and its management, including identifying risk factor and making appropriate referrals.

16 Oct 2019

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Go, go gadget

Community pharmacies can offer customers self-diagnostic tests alongside a plethora of healthcare gadgets.

27 May 2019

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Blood pressure management

This module provides an overview of hypertension screening and management including drug treatments and self-help advice through lifestyle interventions

22 Jan 2019

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