Medication Management
If you have a prescription for medicine, we can help you understand your prescription, how long it is valid for, provide information on the PBS safety net and store your prescription safely.
Frequently asked questions
To be eligible for a free MedsCheck you must:
- Hold a Medicare or DVA card or be eligible for one
- Live at home (not in a care facility)
- Haven’t had a MedsCheck, Diabetes MedsCheck, or Home Medicine Review in the past 12 months
- Take 5 or more prescription medicine Or
- Recent significant diagnosis or hospital visit Or
- Take medicines that need extra care
While we may not be able to offer a comprehensive review, our pharmacists are always available to answer questions about your medication(s)- no appointment necessary.
- A private appointment with the Pharmacist
- A review of your current medications and how you take them
- Education on proper use of devices
- Guidance on self-management and lifestyle support
- A copy of your personalised medication action plan
Our United Chemists in West Mackay, QLD offers in-pharmacy compounding services. Other United Chemists pharmacies utilise a third-party pharmacy to assist patients with compounding scripts.
United Chemists partners with MedAdvsior to offer our community an online prescription management service. You can find out more about MedAdvisor here. Download the app. for free and select your local United Chemists as your preferred pharmacy to get started.
United Chemists supports your GP being your primary healthcare provider. If your regular GP is unavailable, United Chemists partners with HolaHealth to offer our community access to health practitioners for services such as new prescription or prescription renewals, weight management consultations and smoking cessation consultations. You can find out more about HolaHealth here.
To reduce the risk to our teams and community, we may only accept sharps for disposal if they are safely contained within an approved sharps container.