Pam Lee

Public Health Consultant

Healthy Living Pharmacy InitiativeGateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland LPCs Sept 2011

Agenda

• What is Healthy Living Pharmacy Initiative?• Why are we doing this?• How are we implementing?• Eligibility criteria• Discussion

• 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

What is Healthy Living Pharmacy Initiative?

Why are we doing this?

• Improve public health• Increase access to high quality services• Reduce health inequalities

• Pharmacies well placed to engage public• Support Leadership• Whole economy/pathway approach• Joint working• Funding follows the patient

Why Are We Doing This? (Cont)

• www.gateshead.gov.uk/jsna• www.southtyneside.info/article/13283/Joint-

Strategic-Needs-Assessment-JSNA• www.sunderland.gov.uk/index.aspx?

articleid=5328  

Why Are We Doing This?

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%)

• Application Process• Accreditation Process• Eligibility criteria• Cultural change

How Are We Implementing?

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

Questions/Discussions