There are 42 million trips abroad each year where the traveller doesn't seek travel health advice. An increasing number of pharmacies are setting up travel clinics to help change this trend.

Established and operational in over 1,000 UK pharmacies since 2015, the Pharmadoctor Travel Health Clinic Package is proven to be a key asset for pharmacies looking to set up a new travel health service or enhance the service they are already offering.

Statistics show that teenagers and new university students are at a significantly higher risk than older members of the population of contracting the potentially life-threatening meningococcal B infection.

Media coverage of cases in recent years has raised awareness of the threat the disease poses but, whilst babies are routinely vaccinated against meningococcal B on the NHS, teenagers and university students are currently not eligible to receive the vaccine for free.

By running a private meningitis B vaccination service you can help protect customers at risk.

Historically, sexual health was a matter patients would only discuss with their doctor but that's all changed, with pharmacists running sexual health clinics, seeing patients for everything from contraception and erectile dysfunction to period delay and STI testing.

Due largely to the success of the national flu programme and pharmacy travel clinics, vaccinations in pharmacy have become the norm for millions of patients so it makes sense for pharmacists to offer a wide range of vaccines as part of their service. Whether patients missed out on childhood vaccinations or they need a hepatitis B jab for a new job, you can help them.

By signing up to the Pharmadoctor Men's Health Clinic Package you'll be in a position to treat male patients suffering from common conditions like hair loss and erectile dysfunction as well as conduct broader consultations for a range of male health concerns.

Although more prevalent in winter months, pneumococcal infections can strike people of any age, at any time.

Pneumococcal vaccination is not always available to patients via the NHS or those eligible might not have time to book a GP appointment so a convenient private service is always of benefit.

There are established NHS programmes to help people give up smoking, with many prescribing medicinal products such as Champix® being supplied when traditional Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) products have failed. Whilst medicinal products can be very effective, often smokers fail to give up on their first attempt or simply start smoking again after weeks or months of giving up.

Each individual is limited to just one attempt at giving up smoking using prescribed medication on the NHS. This means they may not able to obtain the same medicinal products to support them to give up smoking a second time, leaving demand for a private smoking cessation service.

Sore throats are a common ailment, especially in winter. People concerned that they may have contracted a throat infection already turn to pharmacies for over the counter remedies but pharmacies can help patients further by running a test 'n treat service. Trained pharmacists can confirm a patient's strep A diagnosis using a rapid test kit (also available via Pharmadoctor), then dispense appropriate treatment depending on the test result.