About LG PHARMACY
We are an independent NHS Community Pharmacy serving the people of Glasgow. LG Pharmacy is a family run pharmacy located in Anderston, on the main St Vincent Street route which goes from town to Finnieston and beyond.
Lisa Christie has owned the pharmacy since November 2006 and moved from 66 St Vincent Terrace to its current location at 476 St Vincent Street in December 2008. We have grown to having 11 members of staff – 7 of which have been with us for over 8 years. We pride ourselves on knowing our patients and are committed to our core purpose of helping people in the local community to stay healthy and feel better.
We work hard to ensure we are there to help diagnose, manage, prevent, and treat all your healthcare needs, along with providing expert health care and lifestyle advice.
Healthy Start Vitamins help you to prevent vitamin deficiencies and maintain normal growth and health in you are your child. Our pharmacy provides FREE Healthy Start Vitamins on production of a voucher. Please ask the pharmacist for more information
Impetigo is a skin condition which is used by a bacteria called Staphylococcus aureus. Classic signs and symptoms of impetigo are red sores that rupture and then form a yellow-brown crust. The sores usually occur around the nose and mouth and can spread to other areas of the body by the fingers, clothing and towels.
Our Pharmacy is registered to prescribe for Impetigo. If you are an adult or have a child over 2 years with a minor impetigo the Pharmacist can examine the area and advise on the best treatment for your impetigo symptoms.
The Medication Care and Review (MCR) service, formerly known as CMS, is a serial prescription service. Register with Lightburn Pharmacy to have your regular repeat medication dispensed and ready for you to collect.
A serial prescription is a prescription for medicines you need to treat your long-term condition (your repeat medication).
It looks like a normal prescription but lasts for 24 or 48 weeks.
With a serial prescription, you can get your repeat medicines directly from the pharmacy where you are registered.
You won’t need to see or phone the Doctor to request your medication.
Serial prescriptions last for either 24 or 48 weeks and Lightburn Pharmacy will dispense it in instalments (either every month or every 2 months depending on your GP’s instructions).
The Pharmacy will have your prescription ready for you when you need it, so you don’t have to wait in the pharmacy.
The Pharmacy will keep your serial prescription in the Pharmacy.
Ask at the Pharmacy to be registered and speak to your GP to issue you with a serial prescription rather than a standard repeat prescription, your GP will assess your suitability.
Don’t be running around the houses to get your prescription, no more phoning your GP every month to get your prescriptions, no more waiting to get your regular prescription dispensed. Lightburn Pharmacy will comprehensively manage your serial prescriptions, please contact us to get registered today.
Your Prescription ready when you are.
We provide a needle exchange service where intravenous drug users can obtain clean sterile needles and syringes and safely dispose of used needles and syringes.
This service is designed to prevent people sharing or re using needles. It also reduces drug related harm and the transmission of blood borne bacterial and viral infections such as hepatitis B and C or HIV.
The service is lead by our Pharmacist in a non-judgemental manner and may lead to the user being referred to an appropriate drug treatment programme i.e. opioid substitute treatment in order to stop drug usage . Our Pharmacist can also advise on minimising the harms caused by drugs and suggest further support and help.
We provide a palliative care service. Palliative care drugs can sometimes be required quickly and this service ensures that there is appropriate access to a range of palliative care drugs, particularly outside of normal opening hours, and when treatment is needed urgently.
Many of the drugs used in palliative care are not usually used for other conditions and are often not stocked in community pharmacies. As a palliative care service provider we hold a stock of palliative care drugs for when needed right away. The service is suitable for patients receiving palliative care and those providing their care.
We can help you when you are feeling unwell and you may be able to avoid a trip the doctor.
Pop in to have a quick consultation with our healthcare team who will be able to advise you and prescribe you with suitable treatment.
This service is free for patients who are exempt from a prescription charge. Patients who pay for their prescriptions get a free consultation and only need to pay a prescription charge for medication prescribed.
We offer treatment for the following conditions
Athletes foot
Vaginal thrush
Threadworm
Diarrhoea
Haemorrhoids
Fever/temperature
Sore throat
Earache
Toothache/dental pain
Teething pain
Headlice
Constipation
Insect bites & stings
Warts & Verrucas
Bacterial conjuctivitis
Hayfever
The person who the medication is for must be present in the pharmacy for medication to be prescribed.
A set formulary is used and only certain medication is given for the ailments
For anymore information give us a call and speak to our qualified healthcare team
As well as being more convenient this service offers you: more control and choice in your gluten-free diet. the flexibility to change your order each month. reassurance that your receiving the unit allocation you're entitled to. the opportunity to monitor your condition through an annual health check at your pharmacy. You can start receiving this service through Willow Pharmacy in just 3 easy steps:
Speak to your GP to find out if your eligible and if so, how many gluten-free units are available to you each month.
Your GP will give you a signed registration form you can hand into us.
You will be registered by the Pharmacist and we will give you more information about the food list and how easy it is to order.
Please note this service is only available to customers with the condition.
We can provide a supervised consumption service, usually in the private consultation room in the pharmacy.
Healthy Start Vitamins help you to prevent vitamin deficiencies and maintain normal growth and health in you are your child. Our pharmacy provides FREE Healthy Start Vitamins on production of a voucher. Please ask the pharmacist for more information
Impetigo is a skin condition which is used by a bacteria called Staphylococcus aureus. Classic signs and symptoms of impetigo are red sores that rupture and then form a yellow-brown crust. The sores usually occur around the nose and mouth and can spread to other areas of the body by the fingers, clothing and towels.
Our Pharmacy is registered to prescribe for Impetigo. If you are an adult or have a child over 2 years with a minor impetigo the Pharmacist can examine the area and advise on the best treatment for your impetigo symptoms.
The Medication Care and Review (MCR) service, formerly known as CMS, is a serial prescription service. Register with Lightburn Pharmacy to have your regular repeat medication dispensed and ready for you to collect.
A serial prescription is a prescription for medicines you need to treat your long-term condition (your repeat medication).
It looks like a normal prescription but lasts for 24 or 48 weeks.
With a serial prescription, you can get your repeat medicines directly from the pharmacy where you are registered.
You won’t need to see or phone the Doctor to request your medication.
Serial prescriptions last for either 24 or 48 weeks and Lightburn Pharmacy will dispense it in instalments (either every month or every 2 months depending on your GP’s instructions).
The Pharmacy will have your prescription ready for you when you need it, so you don’t have to wait in the pharmacy.
The Pharmacy will keep your serial prescription in the Pharmacy.
Ask at the Pharmacy to be registered and speak to your GP to issue you with a serial prescription rather than a standard repeat prescription, your GP will assess your suitability.
Don’t be running around the houses to get your prescription, no more phoning your GP every month to get your prescriptions, no more waiting to get your regular prescription dispensed. Lightburn Pharmacy will comprehensively manage your serial prescriptions, please contact us to get registered today.
Your Prescription ready when you are.
We provide a needle exchange service where intravenous drug users can obtain clean sterile needles and syringes and safely dispose of used needles and syringes.
This service is designed to prevent people sharing or re using needles. It also reduces drug related harm and the transmission of blood borne bacterial and viral infections such as hepatitis B and C or HIV.
The service is lead by our Pharmacist in a non-judgemental manner and may lead to the user being referred to an appropriate drug treatment programme i.e. opioid substitute treatment in order to stop drug usage . Our Pharmacist can also advise on minimising the harms caused by drugs and suggest further support and help.
We provide a palliative care service. Palliative care drugs can sometimes be required quickly and this service ensures that there is appropriate access to a range of palliative care drugs, particularly outside of normal opening hours, and when treatment is needed urgently.
Many of the drugs used in palliative care are not usually used for other conditions and are often not stocked in community pharmacies. As a palliative care service provider we hold a stock of palliative care drugs for when needed right away. The service is suitable for patients receiving palliative care and those providing their care.
We can help you when you are feeling unwell and you may be able to avoid a trip the doctor.
Pop in to have a quick consultation with our healthcare team who will be able to advise you and prescribe you with suitable treatment.
This service is free for patients who are exempt from a prescription charge. Patients who pay for their prescriptions get a free consultation and only need to pay a prescription charge for medication prescribed.
We offer treatment for the following conditions
Athletes foot
Vaginal thrush
Threadworm
Diarrhoea
Haemorrhoids
Fever/temperature
Sore throat
Earache
Toothache/dental pain
Teething pain
Headlice
Constipation
Insect bites & stings
Warts & Verrucas
Bacterial conjuctivitis
Hayfever
The person who the medication is for must be present in the pharmacy for medication to be prescribed.
A set formulary is used and only certain medication is given for the ailments
For anymore information give us a call and speak to our qualified healthcare team
As well as being more convenient this service offers you: more control and choice in your gluten-free diet. the flexibility to change your order each month. reassurance that your receiving the unit allocation you're entitled to. the opportunity to monitor your condition through an annual health check at your pharmacy. You can start receiving this service through Willow Pharmacy in just 3 easy steps:
Speak to your GP to find out if your eligible and if so, how many gluten-free units are available to you each month.
Your GP will give you a signed registration form you can hand into us.
You will be registered by the Pharmacist and we will give you more information about the food list and how easy it is to order.
Please note this service is only available to customers with the condition.
We can provide a supervised consumption service, usually in the private consultation room in the pharmacy.
Glasgow
G3 8XU