Recognising Tick Bites and Lyme Disease

While tick bites/Lyme disease is not treatable under Pharmacy First, patients presenting with these or other similar conditions will need to signposted onwards. Therefore it’s useful for pharmacy teams to learn more about these conditions to better enable them to spot symptoms.

To help with this, Lyme Disease UK has produced a range of resources:

• Photo examples to diagnose the EM rash
• Lyme awareness pack
• An animation that can be played on digital screen in your pharmacy

The Royal College of General Practitioners have also produced a Lyme Disease e-learning toolkit