Sign up to FREE email alerts from our Money Saving Club Newsletter Boots is to provide face-to-face consultations for minor ailments this winter, it has announced.
Of the 6,600 pharmacists employed across the chain's 2,336 stores, those trained as independent prescribers will be able to diagnose conditions and even write prescriptions.
Boots will also offer pay-as-you-go doctors services online - an alternative to the NHS which is free. READ MORE:DWP to put extra £600 into thousands of Universal Credit claimants' bank accounts under new PIP rules The pricing structure for the venture has not been announced yet, but the fee for appointments with a pharmacists start from £15, which includes the cost of prescription.
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