Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment 2022

Hartlepool HWB Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) 2022

Hartlepool Health and Wellbeing Board understands its statutory duties in relation to the Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) and intends to publish its next full revised assessment within the required timeframe. Notwithstanding any changes to pharmaceutical services and related, or other NHS services that have taken place since first publication and without prejudice to the assessment of need described in the existing PNA, the HWB for Hartlepool formally reports that the Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment 2022 is under review. Hartlepool HWB has commenced its process leading to publication of a revised assessment and fourth PNA, with a publication date on or before 30th September 2025.

Click on this link to view it Hartlepool HWB PNA 2022.

The PNA includes a description of all the pharmaceutical services currently available in the HWB area from community pharmacies and other providers and identifies any potential need for improvement or better access in the future.

The PNA is used by NHS England and NHS Improvement to guide the commissioning of pharmaceutical services. For example, it is used to determine applications to open a new pharmacy, or for an existing pharmacy to change their opening times. The PNA may also be used to inform the commissioning of services from pharmacies by Hartlepool Borough Council and the North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board.

The HWB is also required to keep the PNA up to date. A new assessment would need to be produced as soon as reasonably practicable after identifying changes to the need for pharmaceutical services which are of a significant extent and by 1st October 2025 at the latest.

The HWB will also keep the PNA up to date by

  • publication of a Supplementary Statements, if required, when changes to pharmaceutical services take place, (e.g., location, opening hours, services) that are not so significant as to require a full new assessment and
  • maintaining the map of pharmaceutical services available in the HWB area.

Supplementary Statements to the PNA 2022

Any Supplementary Statements issued by Hartlepool HWB will be published here thereby becoming part of the PNA for the area.

Map of pharmacies in the Hartlepool HWB area

A map of providers of pharmaceutical services in the Hartlepool HWB area is included in the PNA 2022. Should there be any change to the map, this will be published here.