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BD Competency 7
LPC > News > Barking and Dagenham
Competency 7:Effectively stimulate the market to meet demand and secure required clinical, and health and wellbeing outcomes.
Activity:
- Knowledge of current and future provider capacity and capability.
LPC Comments:
- An updated PCT vision of community pharmacy as a primary care clinical and public health resource agreed by the pharmacists is needed.
- An updated strategy to deliver the vision is also needed.
- An agreed implementation plan is also needed.
- Estates and commissioning must proactively involve pharmacy as a primary care resource.
LPC Score: Level 2
Much work has been initiated and there are real prospects for achieving level 3.
Competency 7: Effectively stimulate the market to meet demand and secure required clinical, and health and wellbeing outcomes.
Activity:
- Alignment of provider capacity with health needs projections
LPC Comments:
- Whilst, alignment of provider capacity with health needs projections are important, it should simultaneously be aligned with the modern view of community pharmacy as a provider of clinical and public health services on top of the traditional dispensing role.
- GP premises and pharmacies should both be assessed for clinical, and health and well being services)i.e. focus should not be on GP premises only.
- Pharmacy premises should be adequately assessed for provider capacity and used more as walk-in centres.
- The PCT is attempting to move this forward but formation of PbC is hampering its efforts.
- PbC Governance arrangements need a review to ensure that there are complaint with the Principles and Rules for Cooperation and Competition.
LPC Score: Level 1
LPC Comments:
- This competency is dependent on a robust PNA being created.
- Pharmacy based services need to be further improved.
- The public should be made more aware of pharmacy services to steer them
- Development of enhanced services could significantly help manage GP workload and shortage.
- development in pharmacy should be included in the wider workforce consideration to make re-engineering of primary care successful.
LPC Score: Level 2
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