Information for professionals

PNA Steering Group

The development of the new PNA has included input from within the PCT of pharmaceutical advisors and medicines management team, the primary care contracting team, planning and system reform team and the public health directorate. Draft copies have also been shared with the Local Pharmaceutical Committee (LPC) for their comments and with stakeholders who attended the workshop in January 2009, which included PBC Consortia representatives, LINKs, GPs, and hospital pharmacists.

In order to take forward the PNA, a PNA Steering has been set up. However, rather than set up another group with largely the same membership as the existing Pharmacy Liaison Group, this Group now has two sections to the agenda in future which splits the meeting into;

  • Part A – contractual / business matters
  • Part B – PNA and development objectives

 

Current membership is;

Head of Primary Care Contracted Services (Chair) G Hope
Head of Medicines Management (deputy chair) J Dandridge
Pharmaceutical Advisor K Holborn
Finance and Contracting Manager C Hobbs
Primary Care Managers Pharmacy & Optometry S Williams/S McGuinness
Pharmaceutical Contracts Service Manager TVPCA J Blight
LPC Chair S Painter
LPC Chief Officer F Castle
LPC/ contractor rep R Ahmed
LPC/contractor rep T Wood
LINKs J Nunn Price
M Judge

Future membership of Part B could also include representation from Practice Based Commissioning.

 

Useful links

  • In July 2009, a regulatory Advisory Group drawn from interested parties was set up and started its work to translate government proposals into reality.
    Agendas, minutes and papers for the Group can be found here.
  • The Department welcomes comments and views from all interested parties on the draft National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Amendment) Regulations 2010, draft accompanying guidance and consultation Impact Assessment, and would particularly welcome views on the various questions (see Chapter 5 and Annex E).

    Responses should be sent by 28 February 2010 to:
    PNACONS@dh.gsi.gov.uk
    More information can be found here.