Pharmacy Local Professional Network NHS England [Merseyside Area Team]
Annual Work Plan 2014/15 with indication of priority level and expected lifespan
The LPN aims to inform and support the implementation of national strategy and policy at a local
level, work with key stakeholders on the development and delivery of local priorities and provide
local clinical leadership.
Our LPN will deliver its aims through clinical leadership and working in alignment with LPCs,
CCGs, LAs, HWBs, neighbouring LPNs, the LPN assembly (see below)
Priorities will be based on local need and national priorities and approved by the LPN steering
group and will feed directly into the Area Team primary care commissioning and strategy.
Priority 1: Clinical Engagement [Include in 3 year plan]
The LPN through its first annual conference will be launching communities of Practice (CoPs)
to develop clinical engagement amongst all clinicians involved with the care of patients. The
engagement will include patients and the ultimate aims of the CoPs will be to deliver a patient
focus and friendly service design/pathway.
Priority 2: Effective Commissioning of services through pharmacy: [include in 3 year
Plan]
The LPN will act as independent adviser and scrutiniser of all current and future pharmacy
commissioned services where public money is used to fund the service. The LPN will not be
involved in the contractual negotiations, but will be happy to assist the commissioners and
providers to reach agreeable conclusion. The LPN through the CoPs will forward innovative
services to be considered by the commissioners.
Priority 3: Healthy Living Pharmacies (HLPs) [Include in 3 year plan]
The LPN will provide support and encourage Public Health, Local Pharmaceutical Committees,
NHS England Local Area Team and others to adopt HLPs model and implement their role out.
Priority 4: Pandemic Flu [I year plan]
LPN will support NHS England and LAT to deliver its Pandemic Flu plan.
Priority 5: Research in Pharmacy Practice [Include in 3 year plan]
LPN will support and encourage pharmacy teams to get involved in research projects and will
share amongst the network any funding streams that can be accessed by them.
What is Pharmacy Local Professional Network
Background
Recent changes to NHS structures created a single NHS England with 27 local area teams to
deliver the NHS strategy locally through existing local health economy.
Pharmacy, Dental and Ophthalmic professionals were recognised by the NHS England as integral
part of NHS in primary and secondary care.
The Pharmacy LPN once set up is empowered to:
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Support the implementation of national strategy and policy at local level
Work with key stakeholders on the development and delivery of local priorities
Provide local clinical leadership
Advise and support NHS England, Public Health England, Local Authorities in
evaluation, assessment and commissioning of services
Act as the only local, impartial clinical engagement vehicle accessible to all the
commissioners involved in commissioning any services with pharmacists and or
pharmacies
The work of LPN should ultimately deliver:
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Quality improvement
Setting up local standards
Best outcomes for patients that reflects local need
Best use of NHS resources, supporting the delivery of QIPP
Planning and designing integrated care pathways
Clinically robust and appropriate commissioning
Leadership and engagement
Feed into National assembly
What does all this mean in practice?
Pharmacy teams deal directly or indirectly with the local population regardless of the setting, and
are not necessarily the only people dealing with them. Hence the need to identify and work with all
the stakeholders in NHS, Private enterprises, Local Authorities and Public Health organisations to
ensure the best care for the population. Dealing with the population in a smooth pathway will
ultimately result in better care and a better journey for them.
The impact of this panacea of seamless working will ultimately lead to positive outcomes, through
improved patient safety, reduction in medication errors, medicine optimisation, and better patient
care amongst others.
On our footprint [Merseyside Area Team] the care and services to the population is provided
through NHS England and a number of CCGs, Local Authorities, NHS trusts and Community
pharmacies.
We are fortunate to have many proactive and leading edge pharmacists delivering high quality
services. We need to identify and engage with these individuals, whose talent needs to be
nurtured and shared. Through positive engagement with stakeholders to develop new or better
pathways that should ultimately lead to better commissioning of existing and / or newly
commissioned services.
The PLPN steering group is establishing working relationships with all key stakeholders and
encourages any interested parties or organisations to link in with the work of the PLPN.
LPN Contact details:
Hassan Argomandkhah FRPharmS IPresc
Chair of Pharmacy Local Professional Network (PLPN)
NHS England (Merseyside Local Area Team)
Regatta Place
Brunswick Dock
Summers Road
Liverpool
L3 4BL
Email: [email protected]
Mob: 07887 615 487
Fax: 0151 285 4815
Alan Cummings
Contracts Manager and LPN Lead for NHS England (Merseyside)
Postal address as above
Email: [email protected]
Tele: 0113 825 2932
Fax: 0151 285 4815
Diane Lewis
Admin Assistant for Local Professional Network
Postal address as above
Email: [email protected]
Tele: 0113 825 2932
Fax: 0151 285 4815
Appendix 1
Model for Pharmacy LPN NHS England [Merseyside Area Team]
Clinical
leadership
•CoPs
•Long term coditions
•Care pathways
Commissioning
Engagement
•NHS England Commissioned services
•Localy commissioned Services
•Audit
•Patients
•LPC's
•CCG's
•HWB
•Primary care pharmacists
•Hospital Pharmacy
•All pharmacists in the area
•Academia
•Other LPNs
Understanding the importance of audit and evidence based practice is integral part of the work of
the LPN.