Got any out-of-date or unwanted medicines? Tideswell Pharmacy provides safe waste medicine disposal of prescription and over-the-counter drugs in Tideswell.

Untold amounts of unused and expired medications are discarded in bins or flushed down toilets and sinks every year. While the full effects on the environment and human health are still being understood the evidence points to the presence of chemicals from these medicines in soil, drinking water and the surrounding environment. Just as proper medication administration is crucial, so is safe and prudent disposal.

Across the UK, unused prescription medicines cost the NHS over £300 million per year. This could be used to pay for:

– 80,906 MORE hip replacements*
– 101,351 MORE knee replacements*
– 19,799 MORE drug treatment courses for breast cancer*
– 11,778 MORE community nurses*
– 300,000 MORE drug treatment courses for Alzheimer’s*

*Based on average costs

How you can help

– Please inform your GP or Pharmacist if you’ve ceased taking any of your medication
– Have a look at what medicines you have at home (and how much) before re-ordering
– Regularly talk through your medicine needs with your GP or pharmacist
– If you need to go to the hospital, make sure to bring all your medications with you in a clearly marked bag

Unused medicines can’t be recycled

Once medicine has left the pharmacy it cannot be recycled or utilised by anyone else. Please do send your unused medicines to our pharmacy or get in contact with us today to find out about our safe waste medicine disposal in Tideswell.