Leatherhead Living 11:32 am on 12th June 2024  

Help public health team plan pharmacy needs in Surrey – by 16 June

From Surrey County Council Public Health

Survey link open to 16 June https://www.surreysays.co.uk/adult-social-care-and-public-health/pharmaceutical-needs-assessment-public-and-patient/consultation/subpage.2024-05-16.2011455145/

We would like to understand you experience of going to a pharmacy so that we can best plan for services going forward. The services we are looking at include local services that you receive from pharmacies (or chemists) and dispensing doctors. To do a good job, we need to regularly review what services we have, what our local people need, and how things might change in the future. This process is called a ‘pharmaceutical needs assessment’ and we are preparing this in Surrey at the moment. 

Many people call them chemists but in this survey we use the word pharmacy. By a pharmacy, we mean a place you would use to get a prescription or buy medicines which you can only buy from a pharmacy or to talk to a pharmacist for advice about an illness that you may have or medicines that you take. We don’t mean the pharmacy at a hospital or the part of a pharmacy where you buy beauty products.

The preliminary results of this questionnaire will be published in the draft pharmaceutical needs assessment which Surrey County Council will consult on in Winter 2024/25. Full results will be published on Surrey-I in the final pharmaceutical needs assessment by Spring 2025.

Your views are important to us so please spare a few minutes to complete this questionnaire. There are a maximum 14 questions to answer about your experience of pharmacies and about you. We anticipate it will take you 10 to 15 minutes to complete.

We really would like and value your input, but if you don’t want to take part, please just ignore this questionnaire; your decision will not affect the care you receive from the NHS or your pharmacy in any way.

The questionnaire is anonymous; you don’t have to give your name and address. Any information you do give will not be linked to you.

Take survey here https://www.surreysays.co.uk/adult-social-care-and-public-health/pharmaceutical-needs-assessment-public-and-patient/consultation/subpage.2024-05-16.2011455145/

Information from SCC shared by Leatherhead Living 12 June 2024