Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment 2025

What is a Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment?

Hackney Council hosts the City and Hackney Health and Wellbeing Board.
 
The government requires all Health and Wellbeing Boards to produce an assessment of pharmaceutical service in its area every three years, under the NHS.
 
The next assessment is due by the end of September 2022. This document is called the Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA).
 
The PNA is a report of the present needs for pharmaceutical services. Its purpose is to identify any gaps in current services or improvements for future pharmaceutical service provision.
 

What are Pharmaceutical Services?

Pharmaceutical services are one of the many services currently provided under the NHS by community pharmacies and include:

  • dispensing of medicines and appliances on prescription
  • sale of medicines to the public
  • providing advice to the public on medicines, coping with ill health or general
  • health and wellbeing
  • receiving waste medicines for safe destruction

Have your say on our draft pharmaceutical needs assessment

We’re consulting on our draft pharmaceutical needs assessment (PNA) for 2025 to 2028. The Hackney Health and Wellbeing Board assessed the needs of pharmaceutical services in Hackney from 2025 to 2028.

We invite you to take this opportunity to review the PNA document and give us your views on its research and the conclusions and recommendations drawn from it.

The survey deadline is midnight, 18 August 2025.

 Download the PNA draft for consultation for 2025 to 2028 (PDF 9.1mb).

Have your say

You can also provide feedback by emailing pna@healthydialogues.co.uk.

We use all information provided in strict confidence and will not use it to identify you.

The information you give us will only be used for the purpose of this consultation and will not be passed to anyone else.

Page updated on: 18 June 2025