Have your say: Barking and Dagenham Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment Consultation 2025

We want to hear what you think of pharmacy services in Barking and Dagenham (LBBD), to help us develop services in the future. Your views will help inform our Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) which will look at health needs in Barking and Dagenham, the level and accessibility of pharmacy services and how these will be maintained and developed in the future.

The Barking and Dagenham Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) for 2025-2028 is now out for consultation.

The PNA describes where community pharmacies are located, how services are currently delivered and what the current and future need for pharmacy services will be in the London borough of Barking and Dagenham.

The PNA is used to make decisions about whether to allow new pharmacies to open up in Barking and Dagenham, as well as approving changes to existing pharmacies, for example if they want to merge premises or provide different pharmacy services.

Barking and Dagenham Health & Wellbeing Board must publish a PNA which details current and planned pharmacy provision in Barking and Dagenham by 1st October 2025. The regulations require that a 60-day consultation is undertaken as part of the PNA development process.

The consultation is now live until 18th August 2025 .

We will consider what people tell us in the survey when completing the final assessment, and this will be published on Barking and Dagenham Council's website on 1st October 2025.