Norfolk's Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment

Overview

Since April 2013 every Health and Wellbeing Board in England has been responsible for publishing and updating a statement of the need for pharmaceutical services in its area. This is known as a Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment, or PNA for short.

The aim of the assessment is to set out the current pharmaceutical services available in Norfolk, identify any gaps in services and make recommendations on future development.

In drafting the PNA we have used feedback from a survey that we carried out earlier this year which asked residents, pharmacy service providers and dispensing general practitioners in Norfolk about pharmaceutical services in the area.

Why your views matter

Feedback from the survey has been incorporated into this draft Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA). We want to make sure that this document fully covers all of the issues you think are important before it’s approved by the Norfolk Health and Wellbeing Board early in 2015.

Please take a few minutes to complete the confidential questionnaire which is available to complete online or you can download a print version below. If you would like a freepost paper version of the questionnaire please contact us on the details to the right.

If you have any questions about the consultation, need help to take part, or you need a copy of the questionnaire in a different format, such as large print, or another language, please contact us.

The feedback from this consultation will influence any changes to be made to the Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment document before it goes to the Health and Wellbeing Board early in 2015 for approval, when it will become a working document.