North East London Local Pharmaceutical Committee

Competency 11: Make sound financial investments to ensure sustainable development and value for money.

Activity:

• The PCT has relevant information which is integrated with the commissioning cycle.
• Payments are made to incentivize improvement in health outcomes

LPC Comments:

• PCT must make efforts to share more financial data sets with pharmacies which are pharmacy, sector and PCT specific.
• For pharmacy based services there is a need to incentivise pharmacies in a way comparable to GPs to improve provision of services in all localities, populations, and quality.
• The Board must give consideration to the criteria defined here and ensure that all proposals for investment are checked against the following:
• 1 compliance with Principles and Rules for Cooperation and Competition across all primary care providers,
• 2 Compliance with pharmacy and general public expectations and preferences,Integration
• 3 Integration across primary care and local authority responsibilities
• 4 improved access,
• 5 Diversity and
• 6 Social exclusion.

The Pharmacy and medicines team need greater support and recognition to ensure that they are sufficiently motivated and up-to-date about primary care developments in estates and commissioning of service

LPC Score: Level 2

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