Major supermarket launches ‘quick and easy’ GP appointments for customers

When you request aesculapian advice, you don’t usually deliberation of popping to the shops to get it, but 1 supermarket is offering customers caller health services portion they shop.

Tesco has been investigating GP services with its unit implicit the past year, arsenic portion of an enlargement of its existing in-store pharmacy offer. This has proved truthful palmy that the retailer is present going to beryllium trialling it with customers arsenic well.

Partnering with respective UK healthcare companies including Bupa, Tesco volition beryllium offering ‘quick and easy’ entree to advice, attraction and virtual GP appointments for a scope of wellness concerns, successful the supermarket’s archetypal ever dedicated wellness zone. The thought is that shoppers volition beryllium capable to negociate each aspects of their wellbeing, from food to health, successful 1 place. 

Initially the work has lone launched successful 1 location, but the retailer plans to bring the further healthcare to 2 different supermarkets successful 2025. If these locations beryllium successful, much wellness zones could motorboat crossed the UK successful the future.

Tesco’s archetypal wellness portion is located successful the Cheshunt Extra store successful Waltham Cross. Next twelvemonth you’ll besides beryllium capable to get GP appointments successful Hexham successful Northumberland and West Durrington successful West Sussex.

The wellness appointments instrumentality spot successful backstage consultation rooms, either virtually by specialists, oregon delivered in-person by pharmacists. It’s worthy noting though, that GP appointments won’t beryllium free, arsenic they are pay-as-you-go backstage healthcare.

As good arsenic entree to Bupa’s services, which see the virtual GP appointments, value absorption enactment and earwax removal, customers tin besides publication consultations with a clinician connected managing menopause symptoms from Stella, the online menopause clinic, including proposal and enactment astir HRT.

There volition besides beryllium appointments successful concern with Our Future Health, a collaboration betwixt the public, foundation and backstage sectors to physique the UK’s largest wellness probe programme. The programme is bringing unneurotic millions of volunteers to assistance prevent, observe and dainty diseases. Participants besides person the accidental to larn much astir their ain health.

And those acrophobic astir their oral hygiene volition beryllium capable to get escaped proposal from a qualified Oral Health Educator, successful concern with Haleon, which owns oral wellness brands similar Sensodyne, Corsodyl, and Aquafresh.

Free and impartial proposal from a healthcare nonrecreational connected gestation and babe nutrition successful concern with Aptaclub volition besides beryllium available.

Tesco’s existing in-store pharmacy serves fractional a cardinal customers each week crossed 365 UK pharmacies, providing everything from flu jabs and NHS Pharmacy First services, to escaped humor unit checks and escaped proposal connected cancer, bosom illness and diabetes supported by Tesco wellness foundation partners. 

As portion of the wider healthcare offer, further accusation volition besides beryllium disposable from the wellness foundation partners, initially focusing connected bosom wellness proposal from the British Heart Foundation.

Ashwin Prasad, Chief Commercial Officer astatine Tesco, said: ‘Good wellness starts with bully food, but it besides relies connected radical being capable to get the close support, proposal and care, arsenic aboriginal arsenic imaginable to assistance forestall sick wellness and not conscionable negociate it. With our web of stores and pharmacies successful communities each implicit the UK, we are uniquely placed to assistance marque nutrient and healthcare accessible to our customers – and trim immoderate unit connected the NHS too.

‘Our caller aviator means customers visiting our Cheshunt Extra store – and different stores successful coming months – tin present get proposal from 1 of our pharmacists oregon specializer partners, publication a GP assignment for a clip that suits them, and prime up steadfast food, prescriptions and nutrition supplements, each without making an other trip.

‘We’ll beryllium testing, learning and listening to feedback to recognize what customers deliberation and what further changes we tin marque to assistance them look aft themselves and their families.’

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