Issue - meetings

Report of the Director of Public Health presenting the draft Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment and seeking approval for wider consultation.

The Board considered the report of the Director of Public Health seeking approval for the Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) to commence a 60 day consultation and to delegate authority to the steering group to respond to consultations of PNA’s from neighbouring areas on behalf of the Health and Wellbeing Board where Southampton was a statutory consultee.

It was noted that the Board would be required to approve the final Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment in the New Year.  The Board also requested that the Local Pharmaceutical Committee who was a statutory consultee within the regulations be invited to an informal meeting of the Board to discuss services further.

RESOLVED:

(i)  That the draft Southampton Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) as detailed in Appendix 1 of the report be approved for consultation from 23^rd October to 22^nd December 2017; and

(ii)  That authority be delegated to the Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment Steering Group to respond on behalf of the Board to consultations of PNA’s from neighbouring areas where Southampton Health and Wellbeing Board was a statutory consultee.