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Sally with her business partner Leanne Carey
SALLY ARNISON, ALPHEGA PHARMACY UK MEMBER AND CO-DIRECTOR OF THE BARNTON PHARMACY AND TRAVEL CLINIC IN EDINBURGH, RECEIVED AN MBE ‘FOR SERVICES TO HEALTHCARE AND THE COMMUNITY IN EDINBURGH’ IN THE NEW YEAR HONOURS LIST. SHE TELLS JOHN MACGILL SHE REMAINS UNSURE WHO PUT HER NAME FORWARD AND EXACTLY WHY.
RECOGNISED BY BOTH THE QUEEN AND HER COMMUNITY
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ALLY ARNISON (SA): I don’t really know why my name was put forward because, as far
as I’m concerned, there are many pharmacists doing good work all over Scotland every day. The citation is for services to healthcare and the community, so perhaps it recognises the work we’ve been doing here for the last eight years since we bought this business, how we have shown our community that pharmacy is about a lot more than just prescriptions – that
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it’s about knowing the people that you live beside and serve. You know them when they are well, and you know them when they are not so well. And it’s also about all the relationships that we have with all the other healthcare providers, be it the chiropodists, the dementia team, the GPs and all the team in the GP practices.
John Macgill (JM): What would you say is the ethos of the Barnton Pharmacy?
SA: It is really important to say this is not all about me. I have to give a big nod to my business partner, Leanne Carey. We bought the business together in 2010 and we still have lots of ideas. Our ethos has always been to deliver really great care in the heart of our community and, while doing that, Leanne and I are both working, as the term goes, at the limits of our professional licence. We are both independent prescribers and we have Advanced Clinical Certifi cates,
so we can be hands-on in terms of examining patients: sounding chests, looking in eyes, looking into ears and so on, and then we might write prescriptions on that back of that.
We offer an examination and treatment clinic in collaboration with our local GP practice and have been able to take on a lot of their workload. The majority of people who come to our drop-in clinic have been looking for an appointment that day to see
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