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NEWS NPA IN FOCUS


The NPA has produced a new resource to supports its members in Northern Ireland. Entitled, NPA Supporting Members in Northern Ireland, it is divided into three themes:


• meeting contractual arrangements • maximising service income and growing your business • you and your team.


In writing the resource, the NPA is aware how the wider health service in Northern Ireland, including community pharmacy, remains in a period of uncertainty, following the collapse of the government.


However, the introduction of the Transforming Your Care agenda in 2013 heralded proposals to radically change how health and social care services will be delivered to meet the changing needs of the population.


Community pharmacy has a significant role to play in this transformation, as recognised by the then Health Minister Michelle O’Neill, in 2017, when she endorsed the development of a new framework to fully realise the potential of pharmacy services to support better health outcomes from medicines and prevent illness.


Unfortunately, there has been little action taken to transform community pharmacy, but the community pharmacy network remains committed to realising the potential of improved integrated pharmacy services that can increase capacity and offer person- centred care.


The NPA is aware of the serious pressures that our members in Northern Ireland are currently operating under, and we know that, in the absence of significant funding, members will need to continue to operate their businesses ever more efficiently.


However, with the experience of our colleagues elsewhere in the UK, we need to also consider the eventual changes to how services are delivered that will undoubtedly bring more challenges.


Balancing the need to operate efficiently and to support your teams through these changing times the NPA is delighted to provide NPA members in Northern Ireland with this Supporting Members in Northern Ireland resource. The resource is the basis of a working toolkit and will be added to and updated as the need arises.


Members are encouraged to identify any resources they would find useful to support their pharmacies and should contact the NPA.


Hard copies will be distributed on member visits and through events. USB sticks with electronic copies, including additional templates, will also be available.


New partnership to support pharmacists caring for a loved one


The Pharmacists’ Advice and Support Service (PASS) has announced a new partnership with Carers Northern Ireland (NI), which is designed to help pharmacists with caring responsibilities.


According to Carers NI, there are around 220,000 carers in Northern Ireland looking after family members or friends who are ill, elderly or disabled, and that, every year, 70,000 more people take on a caring role. Results from a recent Pharmacy Forum NI survey, indicated that 22 per cent of respondents were balancing the pressures and responsibilities of their careers in pharmacy, with caring responsibilities.


Over 70 per cent of carers in Northern Ireland say their mental health has worsened as a result of their caring role and state that having access to the right information at the right time could make a huge difference. That’s why PASS and Carers Northern Ireland have teamed up to ensure


that, pharmacists, have support available, whatever their caring role.


‘We are acutely aware of the caring responsibilities that many of our pharmacy colleagues have,’ said Sarah Rice, PASS Coordinator, ‘and that they are balancing their role as a carer within the home, with a professional responsibility to provide help, support and advice to the wider community. We hope that by introducing this new service, pharmacists who are also carers, will feel that they are not alone and that there is a source of support available to them and their families.’


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