Subject: Consultation on Pan-Lancashire draft Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment 2025
From: Lancashire County Council <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2025 10:57:02 +0100

Dear Colleague
Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool and Lancashire health and wellbeing boards (HWBs) have a statutory responsibility to publish and keep up to date a statement of the needs for pharmaceutical services of the population in their area. This is referred to as a pharmaceutical needs assessment (PNA) and describes the needs of the citizens of the area for pharmacy services and includes information on: 
pharmacies across each HWB area and the services they currently provide maps of providers of pharmaceutical services across each HWB area pharmaceutical contractors in neighbouring HWB areas potential gaps in provision and likely future needs for the population of each HWB area opportunities for existing pharmacies to provide local public health services  
In accordance with national regulations, the PNA must be updated every three years. The 2025 PNA has now been prepared for formal consultation and we would like to hear from your organisation. We hope that you will take the time to respond with your views.
The consultation will run from Tuesday 1 July 2025 to Sunday 31 August 2025. The draft PNA and details about how to respond can be found here: https://consultation.lancashire.gov.uk/responses/response.asp?ID=527
All findings and comments will be summarised for the final PNA document. A consultation report will be included within the final PNA document. This will provide an overview of the feedback received and set out how the comments have been acted upon.
Please could you share this with the most appropriate contact in your organisation.
We look forward to your views.
Yours faithfully
 
Councillor Damian Talbot 
Executive Member for Housing and Public Health
Chair of Blackburn with Darwen Health and Wellbeing Board
 
Councillor Jo Farrell
Cabinet Member for Communities and Wellbeing 
Chair of Blackpool Health and Wellbeing Board
 
County Councillor Daniel Matchett
Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing at Lancashire County Council
Chair of Lancashire Health and Wellbeing Board

 

	 
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