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Healthy Living Pharmacy - Including referral into LCC funded pathways

Healthy Living Pharmacy (Including LCC funded programmes referrals form link)

The Healthy Living Pharmacy (HLP) framework is aimed at achieving consistent provision of a broad range of health promotion interventions through community pharmacies to meet local need, improving the health and wellbeing of the local population and helping to reduce health inequalities. Since 2021 it has been an essential service so must be offered by all pharmacies as part of the NHS contract. Work will include signposting, mandatory health campaign(s) and perhaps PQS requirement if you are participating in PQS at your pharmacy.

General Resources

PSNC have a range of resources on their website here:

Healthy Living Pharmacies - PSNC Website 

There is useful signposting guidance for mental health and well-being, general support, domestic abuse and suicide support on our website here:

Signposting Resources – Community Pharmacy Lincolnshire 

Posters to display in your pharmacy to promote your healthy living pharmacy service to make sure patients are aware of these services and that you have a consultation room can be downloaded at the page linked below. These support the requirements relating to the new patient satisfaction survey.

New Patient Satisfaction Survey – Replacing Community Pharmacy Patient Questionnaire – Community Pharmacy Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire referrals

Inclusion criteria for the LCC funded support programme are shown below:

• Be Smoke Free - Over 12’s who are currently smoking tobacco.
• Eat Well, Lose Weight - Over 18’s with a BMI of 30+ (BAME 27.5).
• Drink Less - Over 18’s drinking more than 14 units of alcohol a week.
• Move More - Over 18’s doing less than 150 minutes of moderate intensity activity a week.

Referrals go via OneYou Lincolnshire and a link to the health professionals form is below:

https://www.oneyoulincolnshire.org.uk/health-care-professionals/health-care-professionals

You use option 2, the online form and enter the pharmacy name and ODS code in the name section of the referrer details.

Signposting Mental Health Support: Updated Nightlight Cafe Timetable  

The Night Light Service hosts ‘cafes’ in different churches across Lincoln every day of the week. The cafes are hosted by teams of trained volunteers who provide a warm welcome in a peaceful environment created to calm those who attend.

This is a non-clinical, out of hours support service for people experiencing a crisis in their mental health, operating seven days a week as shown below. Their volunteers offer a listening ear and provide signposting advice to guests.

The most up to date timetables can be found below, also on a downloadable pdf here.

Lincoln


County Wide

 

To access this service, or to refer someone for support from Night Light, please call 0300 011 1200 or email nightlight@actstrust.org.uk.

In case you missed it: Change of email for NHSBSA Data Services

From 15 March NHSBSA are replacing all support email addresses with one email address to make it simpler to contact them. All queries or requests will need to be sent to the new email address from this date:  DataServicesSupport@nhsbsa.nhs.uk

Please use this email address to contact them for anything in relation to Data Services (Information Services) including prescriptions, dental and/or ophthalmic information.

The following email addresses will no longer be active from 14 March 2023:

• registration@nhsbsa.nhs.uk
• cfsrequest@nhsbsa.nhs.uk 
• datarequest@nhsbsa.nhs.uk 
• ePACT2support@nhsbsa.nhs.uk 
• dataandinsightsupport@nhsbsa.nhs.uk
• eDENsupport@nhsbsa.nhs.uk 
• dentalinsight@nhsbsa.nhs.uk
• eOPSsupport@nhsbsa.nhs.uk 
• ophthalmicinsight@nhsbsa.nhs.uk

What does this mean for you?
You will still receive the same high level of service from knowledgeable support team, but you can now reach them via one email address. 

By using one email address, they aim to make it simpler for users to contact NHSBSA. It will help to avoid any confusion as to which email address to use.