Healthy Living Pharmacy

Health Champion Training

Healthy Living Pharmacy national background

Pharmacy White Paper states vision for pharmacies to become Healthy Living Centres

Portsmouth develop HLP concept with support from DH, Director of Public Health and LPC

Portsmouth HLPs deliver positive interim results. Minister asks can the results be replicated in differing demography and geography?

National pharmacy bodies working with DH launch pathfinder programme; leads to evaluation April 2013

Diffusion of innovation across over 40 areas in England; concept launched in Northern Ireland. Priority for Pharmacy and Public Health Forum. Support from Public Health England

April 2008

June 2009

Sept 2010

March 2011

Present

Healthy Living Pharmacy backgroundNorfolk LPC and PCT develop bid for a Healthy Living Pharmacy Program led by PCT and supported by LPC

15 Pharmacies apply to become Healthy Living Pharmacies and receive training,

Norfolk - 7 Healthy Living Pharmacies achieve accreditation. Norfolk LPC put in bid for funding to be led by LPC.

Yarmouth – 4 Pharmacies take part in National Pathfinder, 7 others are accepted for HLP training.

Yarmouth and Norfolk HLP projects merge and funding is received to continue support existing HLP and develop a further 15 HLP sites.

August 2011

October 2011 - May 2012

February - August

2013

2011 - August 2013

August 2013 - Now

Where has Health Living Pharmacy Funding come from?

Healthy Communities aims to work with 10 Norfolk market towns & wards in the next year.

These are: • Cromer• Fakenham • Diss• Wymondham • North Walsham• Hunstanton • Downham Market• Great Yarmouth (2x wards) • Kings Lynn (1x ward)

What is Healthy Living Pharmacy?

Healthy Living Pharmacy is a development tool

What is Healthy Living Pharmacy?

Healthy Living Pharmacy is a Quality Mark

What is Healthy Living Pharmacy?

Healthy Living Pharmacy has a common vision and goal:To raise the profile of pharmacy in offering healthy

lifestyle advice, services and support to the community

What is Healthy Living Pharmacy?

Healthy Living Pharmacy is about engaging the whole pharmacy team not just the Health

Champion.

What is Healthy Living Pharmacy?

Healthy Living Pharmacy has a recognisable brand

In summary, Healthy Living Pharmacy…

• Is an organisational development tool

• Is a Quality mark

• Has a common vision & goal

• Is about the pharmacy team

• Has a brand the public can recognise

• Is the means to the end

What will a Health Champion do?• Work with the whole pharmacy team to develop ideas on how the pharmacy can be more

proactive with health and wellbeing• Take responsibility for keeping health promotion materials up to date and sourcing new

leaflets and posters from organisations with an interest in public health• Come up with different health and wellbeing campaigns and develop a health zone in the

pharmacy• Consider whether the pharmacy is a healthy workplace and think up some ideas to make it

healthier for the staff that work within it• Be available in a customer-facing role to advise customers and patients about health and

wellbeing• Be able to signpost customers and patients to health and wellbeing services within the

pharmacy or to other providers including existing Health Trainer Service• Network with other Healthy Living Champions to share ideas and what works well• Take an active part in delivering the health and wellbeing services provided by the pharmacy

such as stop smoking, sexual health services and NHS Health Checks• Develop front facing and in pharmacy communications to attract the public into the

pharmacy and use the health and wellbeing services internally or externally• Be available during opening hours of the pharmacy

Agenda for the day• 9:15am – Introduction• 9:45am – Bill Jones, Smoke Free Norfolk• 10:30 – Tea/Coffee Break• 10:45am – Georgia Apsitis, MyTimeActive/Health Trainers• 11:30am – Rachel Cooke, Active Norfolk, Physical Activity• 12:15pm – Lunch Break• 1pm – Neil kittle, SHPU• 1:45 – Healthy Start & Breastfeeding • 2:30 – Norfolk’s Living well/HILS - Lauren • 3:00pm – Tea/Coffee Break• 3:15pm – Building a HLP portfolio -Julie• 4:30pm – Dementia Friends Information (Voluntary session)