Surrey

Community pharmacy is an integral part of the NHS and has a vital role to play as a full partner within a neighbourhood and integrated community team (ICT). Medicines’ safety and optimisation is widely recognised as part of its unique skill set, but increasingly community pharmacy is collaborating with partners in primary care to deliver integrated clinical services to the population. At a time when all organisations are looking to fulfil an enhanced role within integrated care systems (ICS) and resources are stretched to a maximum, it is critical that all available clinical capacity is used effectively on the ground and that we have a local voice within the INTs.

Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (INTs) are made up of professionals working together as a ‘team of teams’ across primary care, community, mental health, local authority partners, voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations and other local partners. The INT footprint spans across several PCN geographies.

Two places exist in Surrey – East Surrey Place and West Surrey Place. Each Place is made up of a number of Neighbourhoods.

East Surrey Neighbourhoods

This map demonstrates the geography of each of the areas defined as ‘Neighbourhoods’ within East Surrey Place. GP practices within each defined neighbourhood are indicated.

Of note, practices are grouped within neighbourhoods based on citizen feedback around what makes sense as a geographical community, rather than necessarily by Primary Care Network (PCN) or GP Federation affiliation.

Each area in Surrey has been appointed a Community Pharmacy representative referred to as the Community Pharmacy Neighbourhood (CPN) Lead. Please see below a list of the CPN leads in Surrey.

The Community Pharmacy Neighbourhood Lead has an important role in shaping engagement between pharmacies and other healthcare professionals in the neighbourhood and will:

• Provide a local voice for community pharmacy at Neighbourhood meetings.
• Work with the GP Neighbourhood Lead for their locality.
• Share information with the community pharmacies within the neighbourhood area.
• Engage with stakeholders at meetings and promote community pharmacy services whilst building collaborative working relationships with relevant members.
• Identify opportunities for pharmacies in the neighbourhood area and assist the LPC with the development of community pharmacy service proposals to meet local population health needs.
• Become a champion of community pharmacy within the neighbourhood, helping to ensure community pharmacy plays a significant role in delivering healthcare services within the community.
• Identify key priorities and capacity constraints in the neighbourhood by getting together with pharmacy colleagues in the area and discussing how your skills, and the services pharmacy could provide, would support the neighbourhood to address their health inequalities.

These are the areas as identified by Community Pharmacy Surrey and Sussex and are subject to change as further information on neighbourhoods in Surrey becomes available. If you would like to know more or you would like to contact your neighbourhood lead, please contact LPC@communitypharmacyss.co.uk.