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Agenda item

Agenda item

HEALTHY LIVING PHARMACIES

To receive a presentation from Luvjit Kandula, FRPharmS, Chief Officer, Leicestershire and Rutland Local Pharmaceutical Committee.

Minutes:

The Board received a presentation from Luvjit Kandula, FRPharmS, Chief Officer, Leicestershire and Rutland Local Pharmaceutical Committee on promoting the use of pharmacy services to promote health and healthcare management.  Copy attached to these minutes.

 

It was noted that:-

 

·         Pharmacy Services were seen as part of an integrated patient care pathway to give patients the skills and knowledge to promote a structured patient led self-care process to assist with the promotion and prevention of both minor and long term illnesses.

 

·         A shared summary of the patient record was a key factor on this process.

 

·         Pharmacy Services were already starting to work towards the key recommendations of the PNA to promote the optimal use of pharmacy services in promoting health and healthcare management. and there was a desire to take these forward in partnership with the Board at a local level and as part of the Public Health’s strategic approach in “A Way Forward for Public Health”.

 

·         The constituent elements of a Healthy Living Pharmacy were outlined in the presentation.

 

·         Locally there were now 150 qualified level 2 Health Champions and 169 pharmacies were accredited to RSPH Level 1.  These figures did not include those trained by Boots, Lloyds, Tesco and Morrisons etc.  It was further noted that Boots were aiming to put 2 champions into each pharmacy and it was accepted that this needed to be clarified on the presentation.

 

·         Locally a patient visits a pharmacy 11 times a year and equates to more than 15,000 visits daily in the LLR area.

 

·         Some pharmacies were facing financial pressures and there were concerns that depending on what the next level of cuts looked like, the government had suggested that 3,000 pharmacies may close.

 

·         This proposed model had some advantages as it established closer relationship with GPs and was a seamless process with the patients, especially where pharmacies are co-located within GP surgeries or adjacent to them.  Even so, patients would still retain the freedom of choice of where they wished to collect their prescription.

 

Members of the Board made the following comments and observations:-

 

·         The JSNA was a living web-based document that was constantly updated and was could not be printed as it was viewed that if the document was enabled to be printed once a copy had been taken people would not go back and view subsequent updates.

 

·         The STP recognised that increased use of pharmacies and the promotion of patient self-help was seen as one solution to reducing GP pressures.   The expected change in regulation could reduce the number of pharmacies and the likely impact of these reductions were unknown at this stage and some local and community pharmacies would be a loss of a good community  asset

 

The Chair commented that it would be helpful to have sight of the data that was held by the LPC in order to have a better understanding of the presentation and its implications.  He was also supportive of the Board having a more strategic approach to pharmacies in the city.

 

The Board Chair noted the presentation and welcomed the contribution made by Members of the Board.  It would be useful in future to have a glossary of acronyms to assist dialogue and understanding.

 

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