Who we are
A1 opened on Market Street in 1974 and has never been part of a chain. That is not nostalgia — it is the reason a pharmacist here can spend fifteen minutes on a medicines review that generates no revenue, because nobody upstairs is measuring the counter in transactions per hour.
We keep a deliberately short range. Thirty-two products, each one chosen because it has evidence behind it and because we would hand it to a member of our own family. If something popular does not meet that bar, we do not stock it and we will tell you why.
We will also tell you when the answer is not a product at all. A good proportion of conversations at our counter end with someone leaving having bought nothing, which we consider a decent outcome.
- Years on Market Street
- 51 Years on Market Street
- Prescriptions dispensed a year
- 14k Prescriptions dispensed a year
- Registered pharmacists
- 3 Registered pharmacists
- Orders checked by a pharmacist
- 100% Orders checked by a pharmacist
The dispensary team
Three pharmacists, all on the register
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Amara Okonjo
Superintendent Pharmacist · PRB 0000000
Amara has spent nineteen years in community pharmacy, the last six leading our clinical governance. She is an independent prescriber with a particular interest in reviewing repeat lists that have quietly grown too long.
- Long-term conditions
- Deprescribing
- Womens health
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David Merrion
Dispensary Lead · PRB 0000000
David joined A1 in 1998 and has dispensed for three generations of some families on our books. He runs our inhaler technique clinics and knows, without checking, which of our patients dislike blister packs.
- Anticoagulation
- Respiratory
- Palliative care
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Jonah Iversen
Clinical Services Pharmacist · PRB 0000000
Jonah leads our travel clinic and Pharmacy First consultations. He trained in Oslo and Manchester, and is the person to see when you are leaving for somewhere rural in three weeks and have not thought about it yet.
- Travel health
- Vaccination
- Minor illness
Registration
Who regulates us
Every registered pharmacy and pharmacist appears on a public register. You can check ours, and anyone else's, directly with the regulator.
- Registered premises
- PH-0000
- Superintendent pharmacist
- Amara Okonjo · PRB 0000000
- Regulator
- Pharmacy Regulatory Board
- Company number
- CS-000000000
- Tax ID
- C0000000000