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NICE Guidance on promoting health and wellbeing in Community Pharmacies

NICE have today launched this guidance - Community Pharmacies: promoting health and wellbeing. It is important that pharmacy owners, pharmacists and pharmacy teams, particularly Health Champions, and local commissioners of both health and wellbeing services understand what the recommendations are and what this means for them. Overview This guideline covers how community pharmacies can help maintain and improve people's physical and mental health and wellbeing, including people with a … [Read more...] about NICE Guidance on promoting health and wellbeing in Community Pharmacies

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Health Profiles Update

The 2018 Local Authority Health Profile pdfs have been released. It is a requirement for accredited HLPs to have up-to-date- knowledge of local health needs and priorities and this tool is one of the best ways to achieve that alongside the local Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) and Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA). Understanding local needs will allow HLPs to focus their health promotion zone, health campaigns and health and wellbeing services to support the needs of their local … [Read more...] about Health Profiles Update

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SMARTER Goals

Most of us have come across the acronym SMART when developing goals or making plans, but how many of us have made these goals and plans SMARTER? So often our life or business goals are not sufficiently specific or measurable and many do not have an 'achieve by' timeline all of which are critical to achieving those goals. Even if these elements are all in place, we often fail to measure whether we are on track to achieve or have achieved the desired goals. This is where the ER in SMARTER comes … [Read more...] about SMARTER Goals