Decision details

Owen Richardson, Data and Insight Enablement Lead advised the Board that there are two parts to the appended briefing paper. The first part is to update the Board on pharmacy changes in Kirklees, in the past year, since the last update.  There were a list of changes, including change of ownerships, six supplementary change of hours, five of which were a reduction in hours with one being an increase in pharmacy hours.  There was also a change of trading name and two pharmacy closures in Kirklees.

A small subgroup regularly meets to discuss the changes and the impact they may have on local pharmacy provision.  Looking at both those closures, it was decided that there would be no significant impact on the local population.  There has been one new pharmacy opened which is a distance selling premises with no face to face interactions, and one pharmacy that has moved slightly.

The second part of the update is to inform the Board on where things are at with the next Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA). PNA’s need to be refreshed or rewritten every three years, and this will be due to be published in September 2025 and that will be the 3 years up for the current PNA.

The approach taken last time was to convene a West Yorkshire wide steering group, to collectively undertake the PNA, but write individual reports as every Health and Wellbeing Board has to have its own PNA.  This will be the approach taken to refresh or rewrite the PNA.  The steering group has started meeting regularly and there are some key milestones that will be coming up, as follows:

-        October/November 2024, a survey will go out to the public and pharmacies to get views on current pharmacy provision,

-        February 2025, there will be a draft of the report circulated to the Board prior to public consultation.  The report has to go out to 60 day public consultation before it is published

-        March/April 2025, public consultation

-        The report will be brought back to the Board for final sign off July/August/September time.  It will then be published in time of the old PNA running out

RESOLVED:

That Owen Richardson be thanked for providing an update on the Pharmaceutical Needs Assessments and that the information be noted.