Pharmacies can provide health advice so you do not end up calling on A&E simply because your GP surgery is closed.

Check out our list of pharmacies across Suffolk and Essex which are open on Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

List of pharmacies open on Christmas Day:

Aldeburgh: Aldeburgh Pharmacy, 125 High Street, 10am-noon

Beccles: HCC Pharmacy, War Memorial Hospital, St Mary’s Road, 11am-1pm

Bury St Edmunds: Croasdales Pharmacy, Mount Farm Doctors Surgery, 10am-2pm

Chelmsford: Colecross Pharmacy, Wood Street, 10am-1pm

Clacton on Sea: Prescriptions 2 You, 89-91 Pier Avenue, 10am-1pm

Colchester: Colchester Pharmacy, Queen Street, noon-4pm

Eye: Eye Pharmacy, 5 Broad Street, 12.30-2.30pm

Haverhill: Haverhill Pharmacy, Camps Road, 11am-1pm

Ipswich: Gainsborough Pharmacy, 13 Reynolds Road, 10am-2pm

Lowestoft: Eastpoint Pharmacy, Clifton Road, 5-7pm. Hayden Pharmacy, High Street, noon-2pm.

Needham Market: Pharmacy, Barking Road, 10am-noon

List of pharmacies open on Boxing Day:

Aldeburgh: Aldeburgh Pharmacy, 125 High Street, 10am-3pm

Beccles: Boots, 5 New Market, 10am-4pm

Braintree: Boots, 7 George Yard, Sandpit Lane, 10am-4pm

Brightlingsea: Boots, 52 Victoria Place, 10am-2pm

Bury St Edmunds: Asda, Western Way, 9am-6pm. Boots, 11-13 Cornhill, 8am-5pm. Lloyds, Sainsbury’s, Bedingfeld Way, 9am-5pm. Tesco, St Saviour’s Interchange, 9am-6pm.

Chelmsford: Boots, 43 High Chelmer, 7.30am-6pm. Boots, Chelmer Village Retail Pk, 8am-6pm. Boots, Meadows Shopping Centre, 10.30am-4.30pm. Lloyds, Sainsbury’s, White Hart Lane, 10am-4pm.

Clacton on Sea: Boots, 15 North Road, 10am-2pm. Boots, 54-56 Pier Avenue, 8.30am-5.30pm. Prescriptions 2 You, 89-91 Pier Avenue, 10am-4pm.

Colchester: Asda, Petrolea Close, 9am-6pm. Boots, 5-6 Lion Walk, 8.30am-7pm. Boots, Fiveways, Peartree Road, 10am-2pm. Boots, Tamarisk Way, Greenstead, 7am-11pm.

Dovercourt: Boots, 224-226 High Street, 10am-4pm

Felixstowe: Boots, 86 Hamilton Road, 10am-4pm. Morrisons, Grange Farm Avenue, 10am-4pm.

Frinton: Boots, Connaught Avenue, 10am-3pm

Hadleigh: Boots, 31 High Street, 10am-3pm. Mill Pharmacy, Hadleigh Heath Centre, Market Place, 10am-noon.

Halstead: Boots, 69-71 High Street, 10am-4pm

Haverhill: Boots Pharmacy, 15 High Street, 10am-4pm. Lloyds, Sainsbury’s, Haycocks Road, 10am-4pm.

Ipswich: Asda, Goddard Road, 9am-6pm. Boots, 5 Tavern Street, 8am-6pm. Boots, Buttermarket Shopping Centre, 10.30am-4.30pm. Lloyds, Sainsburys, Hadleigh Road, 10am-4pm. Lloyds, Sainsbury’s Warren Heath, Felixstowe Road, 9am-6pm. Morrison’s, Sproughton Road, 10am-4pm.

Lowestoft: Asda Pharmacy, Horn Hill, 9am-6pm. Boots, 76a London Road North, 8am-6pm. Hayden Pharmacy, High Street, noon-2pm. Manningtree: Boots, Station Road, 10am-2pm

Newmarket: Boots, 82 High Street, 10am-4pm

Stanway, nr Colchester: Sainsbury’s Pharmacy, 1 Western Approach, 10am-4pm

Stowmarket: Asda, 8-9 Wilkes Way, 9am-6pm. Boots, 21 Ipswich Street, 10am-4pm.

Sudbury: Boots, 13-14 Market Hill, 9am-5pm. Lloyds, 66 Cornard Road, 9am-5pm.

West Mersea: Boots, 37 Barfield Road, 10am-4pm

Woodbridge: Boots, 58 Thoroughfare, 10am-4pm