Our vision for an expanded future community pharmacy service within the NHS - serving patients better, easing pressure on the health service and offering value to taxpayers.
Making Changes Meeting Needs. A prospectus for community pharmacy
Our ambitions
Amongst the ambitions in the NPA’s prospectus are:
Improve the management of long-term conditions such as asthma, hypertension, heart failure and diabetes
Expand preventative interventions to help make the NHS a wellness, health-inequality reversing service
Shift focus from a downstream dispensing role to an end-to-end prescription management role, with a focus on good pharmaceutical outcomes
Become the go-to professionals for optimising the use of medicines, including upgraded Structured Medication Reviews and post-discharge reconciliation
Offer prompt and accurate diagnosis, risk stratification based upon genotype and the capacity for personalised treatments
Increase medicines safety right across the care pathway
Build on hospital touchpoints – preparing people going into hospital for elective care, give them a soft landing back into the community and reduce readmissions
Dramatically improve access to primary care
