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For information and approval: Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment 2025-28 development process and scope report

 

 

Meeting: 06/03/2024 - Health and Wellbeing Board (Item 31)

31 Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment 2025-28 Development Process and Scope Report pdf icon PDF 405 KB

Report of the Director of Public Health

Minutes:

The Board considered the report of the Director of Public Health which outlined the resources and processes required to deliver a fully revised three-year Sefton Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) for 1 October 2025. The report provided the Health and Wellbeing Board with relevant information about:

 

·       Legal context

·       Uses of the PNA

·       The range of information required

·       Required and recommended steps and process

·       Timescales

·       Resource implications and collaboration

 

The Board discussed its statutory responsibilities and the role of pharmacies as an important local community resource.

 

RESOLVED: That

 

(1)

the large breadth and depth of information required by the yearlong PNA development process and final document, as set out in the ‘Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment Information Pack for Local Authority Health and Wellbeing Boards’ (DHSC, October 2021) be noted;

 

(2)

the opportunity cost in terms of public health analyst and consultant time be noted and proposals for organisations and partners with the most relevant knowledge and expertise to produce content for specified parts of the assessment, be endorsed.