This consultation runs from Monday 9 June to Sunday 10 August 2025.
The Health and Wellbeing Board (HWB) has a statutory responsibility to prepare a Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) for Leicestershire and publish it by 1 October 2025.
The PNA helps NHS England and the ICB manage and make decisions about requests from pharmacists or pharmacy businesses to set up new community pharmacies, merge businesses, or move premises within Leicestershire. They also provide insight into other areas where improvements can be made.
The draft 2025 PNA contains several preliminary conclusions and recommendations drawn from emerging data and evidence on local pharmaceutical services. It also includes the headline results from the surveys of residents and pharmacies undertaken earlier this year.
Have your say
If you're a statutory stakeholder, please share your views.
Please read the draft PNA documents for Leicestershire before completing the questionnaire:
- Leicestershire PNA 2025 - Main document (Consultation Draft)
- Leicestershire PNA 2025 - Appendix (Consultation Draft)
This survey is only for responses in relation to the Leicestershire PNA 2025. If you want to comment on either the Leicester City or Rutland draft PNAs, please visit their websites:
What happens next
The draft 2025 PNA will be reviewed following this consultation before being submitted to the Health and Wellbeing Board in September for final approval and publication.
Contact us
If you would like the survey in an alternative format, have any questions or want to learn more about the 2025 PNA, please email amy.chamberlain@leics.gov.uk or hanna.blackledge@leics.gov.uk or phone 0116 305 6096