Agenda item

Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment

The board will receive the Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment.

Minutes:

Rob Nelder (Consultant Public Health Intelligence Officer) and David Bearman (Devon Pharmaceutical Committee) presented the Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA); this was published alongside the main agenda pack.

 

Members were advised that the Health & Wellbeing Board had a duty to produce a PNA which set out the pharmaceutical need in Plymouth; Plymouth’s first PNA was published in 2015 and was due to be renewed.

 

Members welcomed the PNA and the following key areas were discussed:

 

(a)

it was questioned if pharmacies and Devon & Cornwall Police and the voluntary and community sector were working together effectively despite the restrictions surrounding the transfer of personal information;

 

(b)

the workload of pharmacists was already considered to be high however it was considered that this would be increased if their role was to expand;

 

(c)

it was questioned what more could be done to highlight to the general public to make pharmacists their first stop when seeking non-emergency medical advice;

 

(d)

who had responsibility for monitoring progress of the PNA.

 

Members agreed to:

 

1.

formally accept the Plymouth PNA for 2018-21;

 

2.

agree to its publication on the Health & Wellbeing Board page of the Plymouth Public Health website (part of the wider Plymouth City Council site).

 

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