Gloucestershire’s Health and Wellbeing Board is inviting residents to take part in a statutory consultation on local pharmacy services.
Every three years, the Health and Wellbeing Board has to publish, and keep up to date, a statement of the needs for community pharmaceutical services in Gloucestershire. This is referred to as a pharmaceutical needs assessment (PNA).
The PNA looks at who lives in Gloucestershire, including things like age, gender, ethnicity, where people live, and how local pharmacies can help improve people’s health across the county.
Pharmacies don’t just give out prescribed medicines – they also offer important services like helping people to live healthier lives, supporting them to care for themselves, and signposting them to other health or support services when needed. They play a key role in the community and the PNA gives residents the opportunity to tell the Health and Wellbeing Board if additional pharmaceutical services are needed in Gloucestershire, and where they should be located.
A draft version of the PNA has now been finalised, and the Health and Wellbeing Board is seeking feedback from residents to ensure it accurately reflects the needs of the community.
The consultation closes at 5pm on Friday 29 August.