Agenda item

To consider the report of the Director of Public Health

Members noted that the Health & Wellbeing Board had a statutory obligation to produce a Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) by 1 April 2015.A PNA contains information about local need, current community pharmacy services and gaps in provision. The PNA would be used by NHS England to commission future pharmacy services in the borough. The information contained in the PNA would also inform the commissioning plans of City of London Corporation, LB Hackney and City & Hackney CCG.  The process involves a statutory public consultation period of 60 days. The stakeholders to be consulted included:

· City & Hackney (and neighbouring) Local Pharmaceutical Committee

· City & Hackney (and neighbouring) Local Medical Committee

· City & Hackney CCG

· NHS England and Area Team

· Individual pharmacists (including Boots the Chemist)

· City of London Healthwatch and Hackney Healthwatch and other

public/patient representative groups

· NHS Trusts and Foundation Trusts – including Barts Health NHS Trust,

Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, East London NHS

Foundation Trust

Members noted that the proposal that the Task & Finish Group be supported by a ‘virtual’ Steering Group, members of which would be sent regular update reports by email and invited to comment on the action plan, consultation materials and the draft PNA document. The virtual Steering Group would consist of the following members:

· City & Hackney CCG

· City & Hackney Local Medical Committee

· City & Hackney Local Pharmacy Committee

· City of London and Hackney Healthwatch

· NHS England