Pharmaceutical needs assessment
Providers of local community pharmaceutical services have a crucial role to play in improving the health of local people. They are often the first point of contact, especially for those who might otherwise struggle to access health services. Improved use of the skills and abilities of community pharmacists, in particular, working in partnership with other service providers, will play an important part in achieving the strategic goals of the NHS.
Every three years, the Health and Wellbeing Board (HWB) has to publish a statement of the needs for community pharmaceutical services in Gloucestershire. This is referred to as a pharmaceutical needs assessment (PNA). Community pharmaceutical services include local chemists, dispensing doctors (doctors that can dispense medication to patients in rural areas) and dispensing appliance contractors (businesses which dispense medical appliances such as catheters).
We ran a consultation to gather feedback from people such as Gloucestershire residents, colleagues in the NHS, pharmacies, dispensing doctors, district councils, local committees and Healthwatch Gloucestershire. Their feedback was essential in developing this Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment.
Read the updated Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (2022-25) here.
Why are we publishing a PNA?
From 1st April 2013, every Health and Wellbeing Board (HWB) in England has a statutory responsibility to publish and keep up to date a statement of the needs for community pharmaceutical services of the population in its area, referred to as a pharmaceutical needs assessment (PNA).
The PNA helps identify whether there are any gaps in the provision of pharmaceutical services in the county, which means identifying if any new services, improvements or better access to existing services, are needed. The PNA considers the demographics of the Gloucestershire population and the health priorities of the county, as well as how pharmaceutical services can contribute to improving the health of Gloucestershire's residents now and in the future.
Maps
Pharmacy Locations
- Gloucestershire County
- Cheltenham Borough
- Cotswold District
- Forest of Dean District
- Gloucester City
- Stroud District
- Tewkesbury Borough
Journey Time Accessibility to Pharmacies
Pharmaceutical Services
- Pharmacies - Advanced Sexual Health EHC
- Pharmacies - Appliance Usage Review
- Pharmacies - Call Out Scheme
- Pharmacies - Community Pharmacy Consultation Services (CPCS)
- Pharmacies - Dispensing Appliance Contractors (DAC)
- Pharmacies - Emergency Medicines
- Pharmacies - Flu Vaccines
- Pharmacies - New Medicines Service
- Pharmacies - NSP Supply and Return
- Pharmacies - Sharps
- Pharmacies - Smoking Cessation
- Pharmacies - Stoma Appliance Service
- Pharmacies - Sunday and 100 hour
- Pharmacies - Supervised Consumption
- Pharmacies - URMS, JICB and CPCS
Census 2011
Archive Maps
- 100-Hour and Sunday Pharmacies
- Advanced Sexual Health Pharmacies
- Cheltenham (PNA) 2017
- Cotswold (PNA) 2017
- Distance to Pharmacies 2017
- Drive Time to Pharmacies 2017
- Forest of Dean (PNA) 2017
- Gloucester (PNA) 2017
- Needle Exchange Pharmacies
- Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) 2017
- Pharmacies - Call Out Scheme
- Pharmacies - Emergency-Palliative Drug Scheme
- Pharmacies - Minor Ailments Scheme
- Pharmacies - Not Dispensed Scheme
- Pharmacies - Urgent Repeat Medicines Scheme
- Sharps Pharmacies
- Smoking Cessation Pharmacies
- Stroud (PNA) 2017
- Supervised Consumption Pharmacies
- Tewkesbury (PNA) 2017