A SCHEME has been launched in east Cleveland to help hay fever sufferers in the summer.
Community pharmacists have been recruited by Langbaurgh Primary Health Care Trust to give advice and dispense treatments.
The initiative, which will run initially in Marske, Skelton and Guisborough, will enable pharmacists to supply medicine from an agreed list to hay fever sufferers.
Those exempt from paying prescription charges will not have to pay for any medicine and the treatments will be cheaper than many over-the-counter medicines.
Guisborough pharmacist Gemma Bays said: "As a pharmacist, I routinely advise and treat people for their hay fever symptoms.
"This scheme is a great way to deliver hay fever products using the pharmacists' knowledge to benefit the local patients and ease GP workloads."
The scheme is open to patients registered with a surgery in the Langbaurgh PCT area.
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