Issue - meetings

The Board received a report from Emma Sandbach on the Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) for Staffordshire.

The Board were reminded of what the PNA is and that due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the deadline for publication had been extended to the 1^st October 2022. A statutory consultation period of 60 days would take place where the public and partner organisations could comment on the document. The document would then be updated ready for publication by the deadline. The consultation was due to start mid/late June 2022 and end mid/late August 2022.

It was proposed that the Board delegate authority to consider the response to the consultation, amend the draft and approval the final version of the PNA to the Chair(s) in order to meet the publication deadline.

The Board were informed of initial headlines from the PNA which included population statistics, changes in pharmaceutical services and new services planned for 2022.

Resolved – The Board were asked to:

a)   Note the contents of the report;

b)   Support and feedback any comments about pharmaceutical services in Staffordshire during the consultation period; and

c)   Delegate authority to consider the response to the consultation, amend the draft and approve the final version of the PNA, to the Chair(s).