Healthy Living Pharmacy Initiative Gateshead South Tyneside and
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Healthy Living Pharmacy Initiative Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland LPCs Sept 2011 Pam Lee Public Health Consultant
Agenda • • • What is Healthy Living Pharmacy Initiative? Why are we doing this? How are we implementing? Eligibility criteria Discussion
What is Healthy Living Pharmacy Initiative? • Delivers range of high quality commissioned services • Promotes healthy living and well being as core activity • Supports community health and wellbeing • Has health/health trainer champion • Identifiable to public and other healthcare professionals
Why are we doing this? • Improve public health • Increase access to high quality services • Reduce health inequalities
Why Are We Doing This? (Cont) • • • Pharmacies well placed to engage public Support Leadership Whole economy/pathway approach Joint working Funding follows the patient
Why Are We Doing This? • www. gateshead. gov. uk/jsna • www. southtyneside. info/article/13283/Joint. Strategic-Needs-Assessment-JSNA • www. sunderland. gov. uk/index. aspx? articleid=53 28
NHS Health Checks People Eligible for a Health Check – June 2011 Proportion Receiving a Health Check – April 2010 to June 2011 Five Year Projection Gateshead 74, 452 8, 749 (11. 8%) 34, 996 (48%) South Tyneside 55, 841 7, 659 (13. 7%) 30, 636 (55%) Sunderland 101, 700 11, 982 (11. 8%) 47, 928 (48%)
How Are We Implementing? • • Application Process Accreditation Process Eligibility criteria Cultural change
Application and accreditation • • • Application forms available tonight Accreditation panels (LPC and PCT), Nov Advised of results late Nov Dec – preparation, publicity and Locality launches Live 1 Jan 2012
Eligibility Criteria To apply for level 1, pharmacies must: • Deliver tier 2 Stop Smoking Service at least one trained Stop Smoking Adviser, service available >80% of opening hours, must have set a minimum of 24 quit dates in the previous year • Deliver Medicines Usage Reviews
Eligibility Criteria (cont) • Deliver at least one of the following: – Supervised Methadone Available contracted hours – Minor Ailments Available contracted hours – NHS Health Checks Available 80% of opening hours and at least 12 NHS Health Checks 1 Oct 10 – 30 Sept 11 – EHC Available 80% of opening hours – Flu vacs available • Be signed up to attend Royal Society of Public Health Training
Eligibility Criteria Level 2 (to follow) To apply for level 2, pharmacies must: • Increase Stop Smoking Service - two trained advisers, quit rate of 45% since award of level 1 • Increase EHC availability to 100% (exemptions will be considered for exceptional circumstances on application) • Increase NHS Health Checks 100% availability and increase baseline activity by 10% since the award of level 1 • Deliver three of the five optional services listed above at level 1
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