Member of Walgreens Boots Alliance

How can Community Pharmacy deliver measurable outcomes in your community?

Alex Ball

Head of External Healthcare Partnerships

Boots UK

Health & Beauty – UK

• 2,511* stores, 637* Boots Opticians practices, 483* Boots Hearingcare locations

• 90%* of population within a 10 minutes of a Boots store

• c.60,000* Boots UK colleagues with around 20,000* healthcare providers of which 6,400* pharmacists

*As at 31 May 2015 excluding equity method investments **6 month active members as at 31 May 2015

What do we do as Boots UK?

our mission

be the first choice for pharmacy, health and beauty - caring for people, customers and communities everywhere

our purpose our values championing

everyone’s right to feel good

trust care innovation dedication partnership

• Accessible

• Care closer to home and to work

• Flexible to my needs

• Medicines experts

How is Community Pharmacy best placed to support services and deliver outcomes?

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Examples of how Community Pharmacy has played a role in delivering measurable outcomes

• Anticoagulation services

• Hospital out-patient dispensaries

• Diabetes management and screening

• Flu vaccination programme

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Anticoagulation services

• What do we do as Community Pharmacy to support anticoagulation?

• What is our experience of offering this service?

• How can we demonstrate the outcomes of this service?

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Hospital Out-patient Dispensaries

• As Community Pharmacy why would we choose to work together in partnership with Hospital trusts?

• What are the benefits to the patients and to the trust?

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• How have we played a role in

supporting patients to manage their diabetes?

• How are we playing a role in raising awareness of diabetes and screening for the condition?

Diabetes management and screening

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Flu vaccination programme

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Summary

• Accessibility and convenient

• Reduced cost and complexity

• Enhanced outcomes

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Discussion – Interactive session

• Split into three/four groups and discuss the questions below

10mins –Ideas and discussion

5mins – creating themes to present back

5mins – feedback to the room

• What patient care pathways are currently sub-optimal in your area?

• How could Community Pharmacy help design it?

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Thank you

For further support or information please contact;

Alex Ball

Head of External Healthcare Partnerships

07788353856

Alex.ball@boots.co.uk

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