Patient-facing website to promote NHS pharmacy clinical services
Community Pharmacy England has launched a new patient-facing website to promote several of the key Advanced services that pharmacy teams provide and to direct patients to pharmacies in England that provide these services.
The website (communitypharmacy.org.uk) provides information about the following three services:
- Pharmacy First Service (clinical pathways);
- Hypertension Case-Finding Service (publicly known as the Blood Pressure Check Service); and
- Pharmacy Contraception Service.
There is a separate page for each of the services, providing patients with information about the individual services and directing them to the NHS website to find a pharmacy that offers the service.
This website can be used by other healthcare providers such as GP practices and by Local Pharmaceutical Committees (LPCs) to provide information on these services and direct patients to pharmacies in England that offer them.
Pharmacy owners do not need to sign up to be listed on the website as patients are directed to the service finders and ‘Find a pharmacy’ tools on the NHS website.
Supporting patient choice
The new website also explains patients’ right to choose to use any pharmacy for prescription dispensing and clinical services, and that they can change their choice at any time.
