The Building the Community-Pharmacy
Partnership is a partnership between the Community Development
and Health Network and the Pharmacy Branch, Department of Health, Social
Services and Public Safety (DHSSPS) with strategic direction offered a
multi-agency Steering Group.
The programme aims to promote and support local communities to work in
partnership with community pharmacists to address local health and social
wellbeing needs using a community development approach.
The programme works towards:
- Increasing local people's skills, encouraging community activity and self
help
- Increasing local people's understanding of health issues
- Encouraging local people to play a role in promoting health
In order to qualify for funding, project proposals must fulfil the following
criteria which will be used to assess the applications. It is important you
provide us with necessary information on the application form to enable us to
establish the criteria have been met.
- satisfy a real community need
- show benefit to the Health and Social Services and other Government
priorities
- demonstrate commitment from and partnership working with community
pharmacists and the local community
- show evidence of working to a social model of health, giving consideration
to the broader determinants of health and working to a community development
approach
demonstrate partnership working, showing evidence of interagency
and multi-disciplinary skills in working across a range of statutory agencies
and across health and social services
- have clear aims, objectives structured action plan and targets
- plan effective outcome measurement
- provide realistic costings
- provide value for money
- demonstrate innovation and transferability
- provide evidence for potential service development and sustainability
- where possible, extend existing projects and build on existing skills
For more information and an application form visit http://www.cdhn.org/bcpp/
