ACTION NEEDED - PNA Surveys - PNA Questionnaires (Pharmacy and Public)

Your LPC is currently working with our colleagues in Gateshead and South Tyneside  Councils to develop the latest Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA.) 

Pharmacy Contractors will need to fill in a PNA for the council area they are in.   Could all contractors please complete the PNA as per the instructions below for your area.
This is a statutory document  to assess the extent/provision of pharmaceutical services across the area and is used as the market entry document when assessing potential new pharmacy services. It is therefore very important that up-to-date information is provided to give an accurate picture of the current services

Gateshead

Pharmacies
The PNA survey for Pharmacies is open for 6 weeks and closes on 19th January 2025. 
The survey is a Microsoft Form. We would recommend that you complete the survey in one sitting, however, should you wish to fill parts of the survey in on different occasions until it is complete, once you’ve entered the initial information you want to provide, please go to the last page of the survey and ‘Submit’ the form. You will then see a button to ‘Save my response to edit’. This will save the Form to your Microsoft account (to find it, open Forms in your Microsoft account and then select ‘Filled forms’). You can then edit the form as many times as you need to until the survey closing date. If you do not already have a Microsoft account, you will be able to quickly create one for free. Complete the survey at https://forms.office.com/e/HCSzWF07n1 
Public
The PNA Survey for the public  is a single page document , which we would ask you to make available to your customers. If possible, we suggest printing 10 black and white copies initially and placing them on your counters, recommending them to customers while they wait. The deadline for completion of the public survey is also 19th January 2025. Please post any completed forms to the public health team:
Seani Cole
Public Health Intelligence Analyst
Gateshead Council
Civic Centre, Gateshead, NE8 1HH
E: [email protected]


South Tyneside 
Pharmacies
The PNA survey for Pharmacies in South Tyneside is available as a Pharmoutcomes module.   This module should now be available under the services section.  The deadline for this is 19th January 2025.
Public 
In South Tyneside the Council is running the public surveys themselves and they will be circulated in due course.


As an LPC we would encourage all contractors to ensure they fill in their PNA survey, to ensure that accurate information is captured for the the forthcoming PNA.

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