HLP

The Healthy Living Pharmacy (HLP) framework is a tiered commissioning framework aimed at achieving consistent delivery of a broad range of high quality services through community pharmacies to meet local need, improving the health and wellbeing of the local population and helping to reduce health inequalities.

For the February 2019 Quality Payments Scheme, 9,535 pharmacies in England declared that they were an HLP Level 1.

Essential requirement by 1st April 2020
Community pharmacy contractors will be required to become an HLP Level 1 by 1st April 2020 as agreed in the five-year deal between PSNC, NHS England and NHS Improvement and the Department of Health and Social Care; this reflects the priority attached to public health and prevention work.

Training

HLP Leadership training needs to be attended by someone in a leadership capacity; this is usually  the pharmacist. It can be face to face training days or distance learning via CPPE.

The Health Champion training (one whole time equivalent) can be attended by any member of your pharmacy team, including healthcare assistants and technicians, ideally it should be a member of the staff working on the counter who has the time for brief conversations with patients whilst they wait.

PSNC Resources

All documents and other resources are available for download on the PSNC HLP Hub.