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,
3Integration 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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