Locally Commissioned Services
Locally Commissioned Services
Locally commissioned community pharmacy services can be contracted via a number of different routes and by different commissioners, including local authorities, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) and local NHS England teams.
The following sections and resources provide more information on locally commissioned services:
Guidance on development of local services and resources
Commissioning Toolkit Programme
Commissioning medicines optimisation services from community pharmacy – guidance for commissioners
Which commissioner will commission a specific service from community pharmacy and how?
Guidance on developing a service proposal
Essential facts, stats and quotes
Service development tools and publications hub
PSNC’s locally commissioned services database
Template service specifications and resources for locally commissioned services
Community Pharmacy – helping provide better quality and resilient urgent care
Pharmacists with a Special Interest (PhwSI)
The following links take you to pages that contain template service specifications (some are nationally agreed templates, others are draft templates that have not been nationally agreed and are not in their final version) and associated resources on the service; they may be used to inform local discussions on service development.
Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention
Anticoagulant Monitoring Service
Antiviral supply (Flu outbreaks and pandemic)
Care Home (Support and Advice on Storage, Supply and Administration of Drugs and Appliances)
Carers (including Carer-Friendly Pharmacies)
Chlamydia Screening and Treatment
Coeliac Disease – please also see Gluten Free Food Supply
Condom distribution ‘C-Card’ schemes
Digital Minor Illness Referral Service (DMIRS)
Domiciliary Support – please also see Post Discharge and Reablement
Emergency Hormonal Contraception
Emergency Supply (at NHS Expense)
Gluten Free Food Supply – please also see Coeliac Disease
Independent Prescribing by Pharmacists
Long-Term Condition Management
Medication Review (Full Clinical Review)
Medicines Assessment and Compliance Support
Medicines Optimisation (Including MUR Related Services)
NHS Health Check (Vascular risk assessment and management service)
Out of Hours (Access to Medicines)
Post Discharge and Reablement – please also see Domiciliary Support
Seasonal Influenza Vaccination
Supervised Administration (Consumption of Prescribed Medicines)
Related resources & PSNC Briefings
NHS Identity Guidelines: NHS logo use by pharmacies
In January 2017 NHS England updated the guidelines on the use of the NHS Identity, including revised guidance for all primary care contractors who are commissioned under a primary care contract. Where pharmacy contractors choose to use the NHS identity, they must ensure that the revised guidance is adhered to when producing, updating or replacing designs.
Procurement of healthcare (clinical) services: Briefings for CCGs
NHS England published six succinct documents on procurement of healthcare services in September 2012. The documents were issued as guidance for CCG members, but they provide useful background reading for LPC members or pharmacy contractors wanting to understand more about this topic.
PSNC Briefing 027/15: Contracts and the NHS Standard Contract (May 2015)
This PSNC Briefing provides information on the NHS Standard Contract and also on the Public Health Services Contract (non-mandatory contract).
PSNC Briefing 026/15: Contracts and Service Level Agreements (May 2015)
This PSNC Briefing covers SLAs and how they apply to pharmacy contractors.
PSNC Briefing 002/13: Public Services (Social Value) Act (January 2013)
The Social Value Guide was published by Social Enterprise UK in November 2012; the guide describes the impact of the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 in commissioning of services by public bodies.
PSNC Briefing 004/12: JSNA and JHWS (January 2012)
This PSNC Briefing provides background information on Joint Strategic Needs Assessments (JSNAs) and Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies (JHWSs).
PSNC Briefing 098/13: Guide to the NHS Standard Contract (September 2013)
The new NHS structure which was implemented in April 2013 changed the arrangements for the commissioning of NHS services. This briefing concentrates on the final stage of commissioning – the drafting and agreement of the written contract.
PSNC Briefing 094/13: Local commissioning challenge checklist (September 2013)
PSNC receives requests for advice from LPCs each year on how to tackle commissioner’s decisions to decommission a service or determinations not to commission a service from community pharmacy. This PSNC Briefing provides advice on how to challenge these decisions.
Local Authority Health Scrutiny: Guidance to support Local Authorities and their partners to deliver effective health scrutiny (Department of Health, June 2014)
