Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment
A Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) is a health needs assessment specifically identifying how pharmacy services are helping to meet the health needs of the population and how they could help in the future.
The purpose of the document is to inform future planning, developing, and commissioning of pharmaceutical services in Wigan Borough. Health and Wellbeing Boards have a statutory duty to develop and publish a PNA under the NHS (Pharmaceutical Services and Local Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations (2013) (external link).
Health and Wellbeing Boards are mandated to produce an assessment of local pharmaceutical services in their area every three years. Wigan’s next Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment must be published by 1st October 2028.
Wigan Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment 2025
This Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) provides an assessment of the need for pharmaceutical services in Wigan Borough.
It follows and updates the position of the Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) published in October 2022 and will be used to make decisions when applications are received to open new pharmacies or move existing pharmacies and will also form the basis of commissioning plans for services that will be provided by community pharmacies.
The current PNA has been through a consultation period and the final version together with a report on the consultation is available below: