A doctor for Swieqi.

Swieqi, Ibraġ and Madliena sit just above Paceville, so the clinic inside Potter's Pharmacy is the short drive down the hill that people here already make for the pharmacy.

That makes both halves easy: the consultation by video from home, and the medicine collected, and the €25 paid, on the way past.

1. Open the app or the website and give your name and email once. There is no password to remember.
2. Say in a line or two what is wrong. A photo often helps — a rash, a swelling, a test result.
3. Call. Dr Kevin Navarro Gera answers within minutes when he is free; otherwise you wait in line and your phone rings at your turn.
4. Anything he writes up afterwards reaches you in the app and by email, usually within minutes.
5. The €25 is settled at Potter's Pharmacy when you collect. Nothing is taken from a card during the call.

The same things a GP sees in a morning: a chest or urine infection, a rash, a migraine, food poisoning, an ear that will not clear, a repeat of something you already take.

Where the assessment supports it, the doctor writes a prescription, and any licensed Maltese pharmacy dispenses it. Where a consultation shows that someone is unfit for work or for an activity, he puts that in writing too. Both are clinical judgements reached during the consultation.

A screen is not enough for everything. A wound that needs stitching, a suspected fracture, chest pain, anything needing hands or equipment — the doctor says so during the call and sends you where you need to go.

Paceville Doctor, inside Potter's Pharmacy
39 Triq il-Wilga, St Julian's STJ 3112, Malta
+356 2136 3244

A few minutes from the Paceville square, and a short drive from Sliema, Swieqi and Gzira.

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Video consultations

8am to midnight, every day, all year.

The pharmacy and clinic door

June to 31 October: 8am to midnight.
November to May: 8am to 8pm.

Sundays and public holidays follow the national pharmacy roster.

Is there a doctor near Swieqi?

Yes. The clinic is in Paceville, a few minutes down the hill, and the same doctor consults by video from 8am to midnight.

Do I have to come to the clinic?

Not for most things. The consultation is by video; you come in only if the doctor needs to examine you, by appointment.

Can I get a prescription the same evening?

Where the consultation supports one, yes. From June to October the pharmacy is open until midnight, Monday to Saturday; from November to May it closes at 8pm.