A Healthier W

Question 1

What are the overall goals of Healthy Wales?

Answer 1

• Improving the population health
• Making people healthy
• Saving lives
• Increasing life expectancy

Question 2

What must be emphasised for improvement?

Answer 2

• Wellbeing
• Prevention
• Early intervention
• Use of technology

Question 3

What are NHS Wales core values?

Answer 3

• Putting quality and safety above all else.
• Integrating improvement into everyday working and eliminating
  harm, variation and waste.
• Focusing on prevention, health improvement and inequality.
• Working in true partnerships with partners and organisations and
  with staff.
• Investing in staff

Question 4

What are the roles of pharmacists/ pharmacies according to the 2030 vision?

Answer 4

Pharmacy services will be designed around patient needs
* Care will be delivered in local communities with pharmacy
teams.
* Pharmacy teams will improve patient knowledge and use
of their medicines, through co-production.
* Pharmacists will focus on optimising therapeutic
outcomes.
* Pharmacy technicians will improve management and use
of medicines.
* Pharmacy services will support equitable access to new
medicines.

Question 5

What are the 2025 goals to lead us to the 2030 vision?

Answer 5

1. Enhancing patient experience – “Make Every Contact Count”
2. Developing Pharmacy Workforce – e.g. IP, upskilling of technicians,
   Consultant Pharmacists
3. Seamless Pharmaceutical Care – e.g EPS, Choose Pharmacy for
   discharge referrals, IP
4. Harnessing Innovation and Technology – e.g. EPS, NHS Wales App

Question 6

What are health boards responsible for?

Answer 6

• Improving physical and mental health outcomes
• Promoting wellbeing
• Reducing health inequalities
• Commissioning services

Question 7

What is the NHS trust responsible for?

Answer 7

• Public health, ambulance services, cancer and
  blood services.

Question 8

What is the NHS structure?

Answer 8

*7 health boards
*3 NHS trusts

Question 9

What is a cluster + how many are there?

Answer 9

Clusters are sixty groups of neighbouring GP practices
and partner organisations across Wales which provide
services for their local populations of between 30,000
and 50,000 people

Question 10

What is apart of NHS primary care services?

Answer 10

*general practice
*community pharmacies
*dentistry
*optical services

Question 11

Who is apart of the community pharmacy team?

Answer 11

*registered pharmacists
*registered pharmacy technicians
*pharmacy assistants

Question 12

What is the relationship between the NHS and the community pharmacy?

Answer 12

• Community pharmacy operates on a contractor model.
• Community pharmacies are independent businesses contracted by the NHS to provide certain services for local populations.
• Community pharmacies are contracted and commissioned under the national Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework (CPCF).