Registering for Pharmacy Of Your Choice scheme

Patients entitled to free medicine are to register for the Pharmacy Of Your Choice scheme by the end of May, the Health Division said yesterday.

Those patients who collect their medicine from the Floriana or Birkirkara health centres or the district clinics in Valletta, Balzan, Lija or Pietà are to pick up the registration form for the scheme from either Floriana or Birkirkara or from participating pharmacies listed below.

Patients are to take their identity card, the pink and yellow entitlement cards and the white entitlement cards with them.

Once they pick up the registration form, the pharmacist in charge of that pharmacy is to fill it in. Patients are to take the form - partially filled in by the pharmacist - to a doctor to fill in the second part of the form. The form is then to be returned to the pharmacy (from where it was picked up).

Only registration forms provided by the Health Division will be valid. Forms are to be handed in by May 30.

The participating pharmacies are: Balzan: Balzan Pharmacy, Medica Pharmacy; Birkirkara: Fleur-De-Lys Pharmacy, Ħerba Pharmacy, Mackie's Pharmacy, Rational Pharmacy, St Anne Pharmacy, St Helen Pharmacy, St Paul's Pharmacy, The Local Dispensary, Pharmaplus, St Jude Pharmacy, Holy Cross Pharmacy; Fleur-De-Lys: Marrit Pharmacy; Floriana: Floriana Dispensary, St Publius Pharmacy; Guardamangia: St Luke Pharmacy; Guardamangia/Pietà: Charing Pharmacy; Lija: St Michael Pharmacy, St Joseph Pharmacy; Pietà: J&L Pharmacy, St Anthony Pharmacy; Valletta: Collis Williams Pharmacy, Empire Pharmacy, Empire Pharmacy Branch, New British Dispensary, Regent Pharmacy and Royal Pharmacy.