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Everyone experiences headache from time to time, but do your customers know the difference between a tension headache and a migraine, a cluster headache and one brought on by dehydration?
11 Jul 2025
Understand that varying pain profiles require different support so you can provide appropriate advice and treatment to all your customers
14 May 2025
Much of the time, a customer’s headache can easily be cured with OTC medicine or some self care advice. However, headache and migraine can cause extreme discomfort and in some cases may require a closer look.
Recommending a paracetamol or ibuprofen for someone with a headache is often the right solution, but pharmacy teams should be aware of the different types of headaches customers may be suffering from.
18 Jul 2024
Headache is one of the most common customer complaints, so pharmacy staff need to be aware of how to distinguish between those that can be managed with self care advice and OTC recommendations and those that may need further referral.
12 May 2023
From tension-type to migraine there are many ways in which a 'simple headache' can become debilitating and life changing. Here's how pharmacy teams can offer support
12 Apr 2023
How can pharmacy teams help those suffering from long-term chronic pain conditions?
21 Mar 2022
Discover how pharmacy teams can support patients suffering from headache and migraine with this learning module.
18 Nov 2021
Find out how pharmacy teams can support sufferers with prevention and management advice for migraine and help them take back control.
21 Jul 2021
Pharmacy teams can help patients with headache and migraine through management and treatment advice.
15 Jun 2021
A 28-year-old woman, not known to you, presents with headache and requests the product Migraitan that her friend has recommended.
17 Feb 2021
Headaches can affect everyone from time to time but pharmacy staff need to know which types may need more careful consideration.
12 Dec 2019
Improve your understanding of medicine overuse headache and considers steps that can be taken to manage this.
23 Jan 2019
This team training learning module focuses on headaches and migraines.
21 Jan 2016
