Contents

  1. Executive summary for the Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) 2025
  2. Section 1: Introduction
  3. Section 2: Context for the PNA
  4. Section 3: NHS pharmaceutical services provision, currently commissioned
  5. Section 4: Other services that may impact on pharmaceutical services provision
  6. Section 5: Findings from the public questionnaire
  7. Section 6: Analysis of health needs and pharmaceutical service provision
  8. Section 7: Conclusions
  9. Appendix A: List of pharmaceutical service providers in Bexley by locality
  10. Appendix B: PNA project plan
  11. Appendix C: PNA Steering Group terms of reference
  12. Appendix D: Public questionnaire
  13. Appendix E: Consultation stakeholders
  14. Appendix F: Summary of consultation responses
  15. Appendix G: Consultation comments
  16. Appendix H: List of Abbreviations

16. Appendix H: List of Abbreviations

  • AS – Advanced Service
  • ASP – Age Standardised Percentage
  • AUR – Appliance Use Review
  • BMI – Body Mass Index
  • BSA – Business Services Authority
  • COPD – Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
  • CP – Community Pharmacy
  • CPCF – Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework
  • CPCS – Community Pharmacist Consultation Service
  • DAC – Dispensing Appliance Contractor
  • DHSC – Department of Health and Social Care
  • DMS – Discharge Medicines Service
  • DSP – Distance Selling Pharmacy
  • EHCP – Education and Health Care Plan
  • ES – Essential Service
  • GLA – Greater London Authority
  • GP – General Practitioner
  • HIV – Human Immunodeficiency Virus
  • HLP – Healthy Living Pharmacy
  • HWB – Health and Wellbeing Board
  • ICB – Integrated Care Board
  • ICBS – ICB-commissioned Service
  • ICS – Integrated Care System
  • IMD – Index of Multiple Deprivation
  • JLHWS – Joint Local Health and Wellbeing Strategy
  • JSNA – Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
  • LA – Local Authority
  • LAS – Local Authority-commissioned Service
  • LBB – London Borough of Bexley
  • LCS – Locally Commissioned Services
  • LES – Local Enhanced Service
  • LFD – Lateral Flow Device
  • LGA – Local Government Association
  • LGBQ+ – Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Queer / questioning
  • LPC – Local Pharmaceutical Committee
  • LPS – Local Pharmaceutical Service
  • LTP – Long Term Plan
  • MECC – Make Every Contact Count
  • MMR – Measles, Mumps and Rubella
  • NES – National Enhanced Service
  • NHS – National Health Service
  • NHSE – NHS England
  • NMS – New Medicine Service
  • NPA – National Pharmacy Association
  • ONS – Office for National Statistics
  • PCN – Primary Care Network
  • PCS – Pharmacy Contraception Service
  • PCT – Primacy Care Trust
  • PGD – Patient Group Direction
  • PhAS – Pharmacy Access Scheme
  • PNA – Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment
  • PPV – Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine
  • PQS – Pharmacy Quality Scheme
  • QOF – Quality and Outcomes Framework
  • RSV – Respiratory Syncytial Virus
  • SAC – Stoma Appliance Customisation
  • SCS – Smoking Cessation Service
  • SEL – South East London
  • SEN – Special Educational Needs
  • STI – Sexually Transmitted Infection