Healthy Living Pharmacy
What is a Healthy Living Pharmacy?
The aim of a Healthy Living Pharmacy (HLP) is to achieve consistent provision of a broad range of health promotion interventions to meet local needs.
The focus is on improving the health and wellbeing of the local population and to reduce health inequalities.
This is achieved by incorporating an organisational development framework split into three areas:
Workforce Development – A skilled team to pro-actively support and promote behaviour change and
improve health and wellbeing, including a qualified Health Champion who has undertaken the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) Level 2 Award ‘Understanding Health Improvement’, and a team member who has undertaken leadership training;
Engagement – Local stakeholder engagement with other health and care professionals (especially general practice), community services, local authorities and members of the public; and
Environment (Premises Requirements) – Premises that facilitate health promoting interventions with a dedicated health promotion zone.
HLP is now an essential service requirement as of 2020/21 as agreed in the five year CPCF. Pharmacy contractors must ensure they are compliant with the HLP requirements from 1st January 2021.
Achieving HLP status or maintaining it
The HLP requirements apply to all pharmacies, including distance selling pharmacies (DSPs), except where specifically noted that different requirements apply to DSPs.
If your pharmacy has not previously achieved HLP status, then you will need to ensure that you meet the requirements defined in the Terms of Service and associated guidance. You will need to create and retain a portfolio of evidence to demonstrate compliance and also complete an assessment of compliance.
If your pharmacy has already achieved HLP status, then you will need to read the requirements defined in the Terms of Service and associated guidance and consider whether you are still meeting all the requirements. For look here for further information.
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