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Following on from the last check in with Glasgow based Pharmacist Elizabeth Roddick where we talked about what services are now on offer at your local community Pharmacy for this week’s  check in it is all about the eye problems that you can go to your Pharmacist with.

Elizabeth began by telling our Toby Davey about a stye, what it is and how you might treat a stye, to then chatting about conjunctivitis and red eye.

Elizabeth ended with some general advice around eye problems and why it is always important to visit your Opticians if you have issues with your eyes that are not able to be treated from a visit to your local Pharmacist.


To get in touch with Elizabeth you can email info@elizabethroddick.com or for more information visit - https://elizabethroddick.com


Image: Picture showing Elizabeth standing in her pharmacy, dressed in her white pharmacist coat and a colourful bandana around her neck, she's smiling. Warmly at the camera with her hands slightly raised.

Now for a roundup of accessible arts events as RNIB Connect Radio's Toby Davey catches up with Jess Beal from VocalEyes, the national audio description charity providing access to the arts for blind and partially sighted people to share some of the accessible events that are featured in their regular email newsletter.


Audio described shows and events included:

Bert Hardy – Photojournalism in War & Peace - Thursday 9 May, 6.30pm, The Photographers’ Gallery, London

The Drifters Girl - Saturday 11 May, 2.30pm, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff

2:22 A Ghost Story - Thursday 16 Mary, 7.30pm, Hal New Theatre

Much Ado About Nothing - Thursday 23 May, 2pm, touch tour 12noon, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, London

Margaret Leng Tan: Dragon Ladies Don’t Weep - Saturday 25 May, 7.30pm, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London

To find out more about these and other up-coming described arts events as well as details about how to sign up to the regular What’s On email newsletter do visit the VocalEyes website - https://vocaleyes.co.uk


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The first Sight Loss Council is being launched in Scotland, with the help of Sight Scotland, Sight Scotland Veterans, and Visibility Scotland, it’s being funded by Thomas Pocklington Trust, following the successful SLC model that’s been in place for a few years now in England. Hubert has been speaking to the engagement manager from the first Scotland SLC, together with TPT’s director of services.

If you have walked in to your local Community Pharmacy recently or even over the last couple of years you may have noticed that there is a lot more on offer than just picking up your prescriptions and some general medication like headache tablets.  So for this week’s check in with Glasgow based Pharmacist Elizabeth Roddick we find out about how your local community Pharmacy has changed over the years and what they are now able to offer you too. 

Elizabeth began by telling our Toby Davey about the changes that have happened in the Pharmacy in the last few years and an outline of what Pharmacy staff are able to offer you when you walk through the door, with some differences depending which nation you might live in.

Then to how things may link up between your local community Pharmacy and your local GP 

For more about Pharmacy First in England do visit -
https://www.england.nhs.uk/primary-care/pharmacy/pharmacy-services/pharmacy-first/

And for Pharmacy First in Scotland do visit -
https://www.gov.scot/publications/nhs-pharmacy-first-scotland-information-patients/# 


To get in touch with Elizabeth you can email info@elizabethroddick.com or for more information visit - https://elizabethroddick.com





Image: Picture showing Elizabeth standing in her pharmacy, dressed in her white pharmacist coat and a colourful bandana around her neck, she's smiling. Warmly at the camera with her hands slightly raised.

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Now for a roundup of accessible arts events as RNIB Connect Radio's Toby Davey catches up with Jess Beal from VocalEyes, the national audio description charity providing access to the arts for blind and partially sighted people to share some of the accessible events that are featured in their regular email newsletter.

Audio described shows and events included:

Madagascar The Musical - Friday 19 April, 7pm, New Theatre Oxford

Opening Night - Saturday 27 April, 2.30pm, Gielgud Theatre, London  

Hadestown - Saturday 27 April, 2.30pm, Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London

Guys & Dolls - Saturday 4 May, 2.30pm, Touch tour 12.25pm, Bridge Theatre, London

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Thursday 9 May, 2pm, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton

To find out more about these and other up-coming described arts events as well as details about how to sign up to the regular What’s On email newsletter do visit the VocalEyes website - https://vocaleyes.co.uk


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