Give us your views on Pharmaceutical Needs

Closed 6 Oct 2024

Opened 5 Aug 2024

Contact

ph.healthprotection@westnorthants.gov.uk

Overview

North Northamptonshire Council and West Northamptonshire Council Public Health teams are completing some important research on how you feel about pharmacy services.

What are pharmacy services?

A pharmacy, also known as a chemist, is a place you would go to:

  • To collect a prescription
  • To buy medicines
  • To talk to a pharmacist for advice about your illnesses or medication

We do not mean any pharmacy in a hospital, or somewhere you shop to buy anything other than medicine, for example, beauty products.

Background

We would like to understand how people feel about the current services they receive from local pharmacies in Northamptonshire.

The purpose of this survey is to review services that are available, what services people need, and to identify what might need improving. This process is called a pharmaceutical needs assessment.

More about pharmaceutical needs assessments

A pharmaceutical needs assessment is a legal requirement and must be updated every three years. It is the responsibility of the local authority and its public health and wellbeing boards to develop by looking at local needs and identify gaps so that it can then be used as a tool to commission other services where they are needed.

We understand that visits to pharmacies may often be quite personal, however this survey does not take any personal or personally identifiable information.

We value your feedback and encourage everyone that uses pharmaceutical services to give us their views.

How to give your views

This survey is aimed at Northamptonshire residents. You can complete the online survey using the Give us your views link below.

Contractors (dispensing appliance contractors) and dispensing pharmacies are also invited to take part (contractors and dispensing pharmacies, please see the related activities at the bottom of this page to re-direct you to the appropriate survey).

If you have any questions or require the survey in a different format, please contact ph.healthprotection@westnorthants.gov.uk

This survey closes at midnight on Sunday 6 October 2024

 For information about how your responses are managed please see the appropriate privacy notice for your local area:

What happens next?

The results of the survey will be analysed and reported within a draft pharmaceutical needs assessment. The final report will be published in Spring 2025 and will be available on the appropriate website:

What happens next

We will consider all feedback which will then be places into a final report. The final report will be published in Spring 2025 and will be available on the appropriate website:

Interests

  • Engagement activities
  • Public Health