Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment

Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment 2025

 Blackpool Health and Wellbeing Board has a statutory duty to complete a pharmaceutical needs assessment (PNA). The PNA seeks to identify those local health needs which could be met by the provision of pharmaceutical services.  Partner organisations across the pan Lancashire region, made up of Blackpool, Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen Health and Wellbeing Boards, came together to work on an updated Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment.  This assessment was published in October 2025.

NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) took on delegated responsibility for the commissioning of NHS pharmaceutical and local pharmaceutical services from NHS England on the 1 July 2022. The ICB will therefore be using the PNA in order to determine routine applications under the NHS Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Regulations 2013, as amended.

The executive summary and full PNA are available below. Please note, as the PNA is a large document, it has been split into separate chapters.

The PNA includes information on:

pharmacies in Lancashire and the services they currently provide;

relevant maps relating to Lancashire and providers of pharmaceutical services in the area;

pharmacies in neighbouring HWB areas that might affect the need for services in Lancashire; and

potential gaps in provision and likely future needs for the population of Lancashire.

Executive summary

Chapter 1 - Introduction

Chapter 2 - The process

Chapter 3 - Context

Chapter 4 - Current provision

Chapter 5 - Health needs and locally commissioned services

Chapter 6 - Population and housing

Appendices

The current opening times of pharmacies can be found on the NHS Pharmacies website.  

Pharmacy Amendments

HBS Pharmacy, Newton Drive Health Centre, Newton Drive, Blackpool, FY3 8NX (Change of Ownership)

Bloomfield Road Healthcare Limited, Bloomfield Road, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY1 6JN (Change of Ownership)

Fylde Heathcare Limited, Newton Drive Health Centre,Newton Drive, Blackpool, FY3 8NX (Change of Ownership)

Well Retail UnitE, 5 Langdale Place Mereside Blackpool FY4 4TR (Change of Ownership)

Bestway National Chemists Ltd at 8 South King Street, Blackpool, FY1 4ND (Change of Ownership)

Bestway National Chemists Ltd T/a Well 8 Grasmere Road, Blackpool, FY1 5HU (Change of Ownership)

Bestway National Chemists Ltd T/A Well, The Arnold Medical Centre, 204 St Annes Road, Blackpool FY4 2EF (Closure)

Talbot Road Healthcare Limited T/A Talbot Road Pharmacy, 10 Talbot Road, Blackpool, FY1 1LR (Change of Ownership)

Prestford Limited T/a Everest Pharmacy, 8 South King Street, Blackpool, FY1 4ND (Change of Ownership)

93-99 Bloomfield Road, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY1 6JN, (the remaining site) and Bloomfield Medical Centre, 118-120 Bloomfield Road, Blackpool, FY1 6JW, (the closing site) (Consolidation)

Prestford Limited T/a Everest Pharmacy, 8 Grasmere Road, Blackpool, FY1 5HU (Change of Ownership)

Layton Healthcare Limited T/a Whitworth Chemist, Layton Medical Centre, 200 Kingscote Drive, Layton, Lancashire, FY3 7EN (Change of Ownership)

Prestford Limited T/a Everest Pharmacy, Unit E, 5 Langdale Place, Mereside, Blackpool, FY4 4TR (Change of Ownership)

Common Edge Healthcare Ltd at 25-27 Common Edge Road, Blackpool, FY4 5AX (Change of Ownership)

Layton Healthcare Limited T/A Allied Pharmacy Layton, 9 Westcliffe Drive, Layton, Blackpool, Lancashire,FY3 7BJ (Change of Ownership)

Express Chemist, 27 Common Edge Road, Blackpool, FY4 5AX27 (change of hours)