The Department of Health have launched the five year plan for the NHS, this can be downloaded by clicking here.

The document states: 

Pharmacies are a crucial local partner, and are well-positioned to provide personalised health advice within local communities. Guidance on how pharmacy staff can be enabled to become health champions and health trainers will be published. We have asked Portsmouth PCT to develop a framework for healthy living pharmacies, setting out a vision for how pharmacies can play a key role in promoting health and well-being, as well as in supplying and providing advice on the safe use of medicines.

The LPC is an intrinsic part of developing this Healthy Living Pharmacy framework, both locally and nationally, and the Portsmouth HLP prospectus was launched on December 10 - see the HLP page for more information.