Making the Most of Your Local Pharmacy

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1 Making the Most of Your Local Pharmacy Wigan Borough Pharmacy Patient Satisfaction Survey 2015

2 Introduction A patient satisfaction survey was carried out involving pharmacies in Wigan Borough and supported by the Local Pharmaceutical Committee. This was carried out concurrently with the consultation on the Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (24 November 2014 to 2 February 2015). The opportunity for pharmacies to provide additional responses to the survey was extended throughout February 2015 to maximise the number of responses received. The 72 pharmacies were each given 20 copies of the survey. The aim was to give these to patients/customers to complete while attending the pharmacy. 307 responses were received (21.3% return proportion). All responses are completely anonymous. A copy of the survey is given in Appendix 1. Key Findings Service Satisfaction How would you rate the service you received today? 99.0% of people responding to this question replied Excellent or Good. How would you rate the cleanliness and tidiness of the pharmacy? 99.7% of people responding to this question replied Excellent or Good. How would you rate the helpfulness of the staff today? 99.7% of people responding to this question replied Excellent or Good. How would you rate the time taken for staff to serve you? 97.6% of people responding to this question replied Excellent or Good. Are you satisfied with the opening hours of your regular pharmacy, or if you have no regular pharmacy, the one you used today? 96.9% of people responding to this question replied Yes.

3 Survey Analysis Gender and age group of people surveyed Figure 1 shows the breakdown of those surveyed by gender. Of those that responded to the question there were more females than males. 10% of those surveyed did not answer this question. 30 (10%) 119 (39%) 158 (51%) Female Male Not answered Figure 1. Gender of people surveyed Figure 2 shows the breakdown of those surveyed by age group. Most of those surveyed were aged 25+ within which there was a balanced representation by age group. 10% of those surveyed did not provide an answer to this question. 8 (3%) 21 (7%) 5 (2%) 14 (4%) 90 (29%) 89 (29%) 80 (26%) Under Prefer not to say Not answered Figure 2. Age group of people surveyed

4 Figure 3 provides a breakdown by age group and gender. Of those that answered the questions on age and gender a higher number of females were surveyed compared to males up to the age of 60. For the 60+ age group, where answers were provided, an equal number of males and females were surveyed. 60 Number of people surveyed Under Age Group 60+ Prefer not to say Female Male Not answered Not answered Figure 3. Age group of people surveyed by gender Ethnicity of people surveyed 86.6% of people surveyed gave their ethnicity as White. However, 25 (8.1%) people either did not answer this question or answered Prefer not to say. Taking this into account, of those people surveyed who declared their ethnicity, 94.3% declared their ethnicity as White. This reflects the situation in Wigan Borough as a whole where in the 2011 Census over 95% of people responding in Wigan Borough declared their ethnicity as White. Of those who declared their ethnicity in this survey, less than 2% were Asian or Asian British, and less than 2% were either Black or Black British, Chinese, or Mixed. A further 2% of those who declared their ethnicity, declared their ethnicity as Other. Locality of residence of people surveyed 91% of people surveyed provided their postcode. This is treated as completely confidential. However, it allows an assessment of the spread of responses geographically. This was done by equating each postcode with one of five Localities in Wigan Borough (see Figure 4). These are the same Localities used for the Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment.

5 Figure 4. Localities in Wigan Borough Table 1 shows the proportion of survey responses by Locality for people that had provided their postcode. There was a low response from Locality 3 compared with elsewhere. Locality Proportion of people surveyed (Those that provided their postcode) 1 33% 2 27% 3 5% 4 23% 5 12% Table 1. Proportion of people surveyed (who provided their postcode) by Locality Reasons for visiting a pharmacy on the day when surveyed Figure 5 shows the proportion of people surveyed by the number of reasons that they had for visiting a pharmacy that day. Most people (79.5%) had only a single reason for visiting a pharmacy that day when answering the question Why are you using the pharmacy today.

6 90% 80% 70% % of people 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Not answered Number of reasons for attending Figure 5. Number of reasons for visiting a pharmacy on the day when surveyed Figure 6 shows the reasons people had to visit a pharmacy on the day that they were surveyed as a proportion of all the reasons given. The most common reason given (over 60%) was to collect a prescription. Other Needle Exchange Supervised Methodone/Subutex Stop Smoking Scheme Medicines use Review Emergency Hormonal Contraception Minor Ailment Scheme Advice To buy other products To buy medication Prescription 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% % of reasons for attending pharmacy Figure 6. Reasons for visiting a pharmacy as a proportion of all the reasons given Figure 7 provides the same information as Figure 6 but as a proportion of people surveyed. This excluded people that did not provide an answer to this question (1% - see Figure 5). The majority of people surveyed were attending in order to collect a prescription (80%). Given that the intention was for people to complete the survey questionnaire within the pharmacy, having to wait for their prescription to be dispensed provided a convenient opportunity to do this.

7 Other Needle Exchange Supervised Methadone/Subutex Stop Smoking Scheme Medicines use Review Emergency Hormonal Contraception Minor Ailment Scheme Advice To buy other products To buy medication Prescription 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% % of people attending by reason Figure 7. Reasons for visiting a pharmacy as a proportion of people surveyed Figure 8 shows the preference of people when choosing to visit a pharmacy. The majority of those surveyed preferred to visit the pharmacy they attended on the day they were surveyed. 7.5% 4.9% 4.6% This is the pharmacy I choose to visit if possible This is one of several pharmacies I use 83.1% This pharmacy was just convenient for me today Not answered Figure 8. Preference of those surveyed in visiting a pharmacy

8 Service Satisfaction Figure 9 shows the results of the key service satisfaction questions within the survey questionnaire. This includes the proportion of people who did not answer each question. How would you rate the time taken for staff to serve you? How would you rate the helpfulness of staff today? How would you rate the cleanliness and tidiness of the pharmacy? How would you rate the service you received today? Figure 9. Results of key service satisfaction questions 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% Proportion of people questioned Excellent Good Average Poor Very Poor Not answered Figure 10 shows the same results as Figure 9 but excludes people that did not answer the question, combines Excellent or Good and Poor or Very Poor, and zooms in on the chart to highlight information. How would you rate the time taken for staff to serve you? 97.6% How would you rate the helpfulness of staff today? 99.7% How would you rate the cleanliness and tidiness of the pharmacy? 99.7% How would you rate the service you received today? 99.0% 95% 96% 97% 98% 99% 100% Proportion of people questioned (Excludes 'Not answered') Excellent or Good Average Poor or Very Poor Figure 10. Results of key service satisfaction questions (excluding not answered questions)

9 Figure 11 shows the proportion of people satisfied with the opening hours of their regular pharmacy, or if they have no regular pharmacy, the one they used when they completed the survey questionnaire. Are you satisfied with the opening hours of your regular pharmacy, or, if you have no regular pharmacy the one you used today? (Excludes not answered) 96.9% Are you satisfied with the opening hours of your regular pharmacy, or, if you have no regular pharmacy the one you used today? (Includes not answered) 92.2% Figure 11. Satisfaction with opening hours 90% 91% 92% 93% 94% 95% 96% 97% 98% 99% 100% Proportion of people questioned Yes No Not answered Taken as a whole, there appears to be a high level of satisfaction with the pharmacy service received by those who completed the survey questionnaire. General pharmacy use Figure 12 shows how regularly the people surveyed visited a pharmacy. Not answered Once a year or less Twice a year Every 3 months Monthly Weekly Daily 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% Proportion of people surveyed Figure 12. Frequency of pharmacy use by people surveyed

10 The majority of people surveyed visit a pharmacy at least once every three months with the largest proportion of people visiting a pharmacy monthly. Figure 13 shows the usual means of travel of people surveyed either to their regularly pharmacy, or if they do not have one, to the pharmacy they used when surveyed. The majority either walked to the pharmacy or travelled by car. Not answered Other Car Taxi Public Transport Cycle Walk 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% Proportion of people surveyed Figure 13. Means of travel to a pharmacy Figure 14 shows the travel times of those surveyed using their usual means of travel to a pharmacy. The majority were able to travel to a pharmacy within ten minutes with in excess of 90% travelling to a pharmacy within 20 minutes. Not answered More than 25 minutes minutes minutes minutes 5-10 minutes 5 minutes or less 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% Proportion of people surveyed Figure 14. Travel time to pharmacy

11 Figure 15 shows the reasons that people used a pharmacy within the previous 12 months as a proportion of people that gave at least one reason. People ticked up to eight reasons given for the survey question Have you used a pharmacy for any of the following in the last 12 months? However, 22% of those surveyed did not provide any answer to this question. This could be interpreted as they had not visited a pharmacy within the previous 12 months for any of the reasons listed or that they had not answered the question. Needle exchange Supervised Methadone/subutex Medines use review Prescription delivery service Blister pack/compliance aid Minor Ailment Scheme Emergency Hormonal Contraception Help to stop smoking Advice on where to go for other services Disposing of medicine you no longer need Advice on a more healthy lifestyle Advice on a long term health issue Advice on a current health problem 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% % of people attending by reason in the last 12 months Figure 15. Reasons for visiting a pharmacy within the previous 12 months as a proportion of people surveyed that provided at least one reason Finding a pharmacy closed during the previous 12 months Around a quarter of people surveyed (76 people, 24.8%) had wanted to use either their regular pharmacy or one that was convenient at the time but had found it closed during the previous 12 months. Of these, 70 people gave a day or days when they had found a pharmacy closed when needed or stated that they could not remember (see Figure 16). Of these, 62 (88.6%) only gave only one day of the week when they found a pharmacy closed when needed. Eight (11.4%), stated more than one day when they found a pharmacy closed when needed, with four people stating every day of the week. The distribution of finding a pharmacy closed is fairly even across the week with a range of 8 to 12 times each week day, 7 times on a bank holiday. 69 people gave times of the day when they found a pharmacy closed when needed or stated that they could not remember (see Figure 17). Most only specified one time although four people specified two times.

12 Can't remember Bank Holiday Sun Sat Fri Thurs Wed Tues Mon Number of days when pharmacy found closed Figure 16. Number of days when pharmacy found closed by weekday (70 people) Can't remember 10pm - 6am 8pm - 10pm 6pm - 8pm 2pm - 6pm 12pm - 2pm 9am - 12pm 6am - 9am Number of times during the day when pharmacy found closed Figure 17. Number of times when pharmacy found closed by time period (69 people) Figure 18 states the actions taken when finding a pharmacy closed. 77% of the actions taken involved waiting until the pharmacy was open, using a different pharmacy or using NHS Direct. 13% of the actions involved seeking clinical attention (seeing their doctor or out of hours doctor, going to the walk in centre or a hospital). 10% stated that they could not remember.

13 Can't remember Went to hospital Used NHS direct Went to walk in centre Used out of hours doctor Went to doctor Used a different pharmacy Waited until pharmacy was open Figure 18. Actions taken when pharmacy found closed (69 people) However, when analysing the data to determine the risk of finding a pharmacy closed by the normal frequency of a person visiting a pharmacy, the risk of finding the pharmacy closed is quite low (see table 2.). Frequency of visiting a pharmacy Daily Weekly Monthly Every 3 months Risk of finding the pharmacy closed Less than 1 in 300 visits Less than 1 in 120 visits Less than 1 in 40 visits 1 in 38 visits Table 2. Risk of finding a pharmacy closed by normal frequency of use The majority of people that experienced finding a pharmacy closed were visiting a pharmacy at least every month. Conclusion 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% Action taken when pharmacy found closed This patient satisfaction survey provides an overview of patients and customers views of pharmacy services within Wigan Borough. As such it has several limitations. Firstly, it provides no specific information regarding individual pharmacies. Secondly, people surveyed were more likely to be people who attended pharmacies relatively frequently. Therefore, there is less information in regard to the occasional user as illustrated in Figure 12. Fourthly, since it was most convenient for people to complete the survey questionnaire while they were waiting for the dispensing of a prescription, there is likely to be an over representation of people attending a pharmacy to collect a prescription. This is certainly suggested in Figure 7 where around 80% of those surveyed did attend a pharmacy to collect a prescription. Finally, there is geographical variation in the number of responses received with people living in in the north of the Borough being more represented than people in the middle and east of the Borough.

14 However, given the above limitations following can be stated: 1. In regard to the key service satisfaction questions, the majority of people were satisfied with the service that they received on the day they were surveyed with over 95% of people answering the questions given in Figure 10 as Excellent or Good. 2. Most people (96.9%) were satisfied with the opening hours of their regular pharmacy or the one they used on the day surveyed (Figure 11). 3. Around a quarter of people surveyed were faced with a closed pharmacy during the previous 12 months. However, the risk of finding a pharmacy closed for any one visit was low (Table 2). 4. Most people surveyed either walked or used a car to travel to a pharmacy with over 90% having a travel time of no more than 20 minutes (Figure 14). 5. While most people surveyed were attending the pharmacy to collect a prescription it was clear that those surveyed used pharmacies for a wide diversity of reasons (Figures 7 and 15) including advice on a number of issues. Local pharmacies provide a valuable service to the community as they can often provide advice and services that reduce the need to patients to seek other clinical services. In addition, when patients seek advice for want could be a serious condition pharmacy staff can advise patients to see their doctor or signpost them to another appropriate service. Despite its limitations, this survey does suggest that most people are very satisfied with the service they receive from local pharmacies.

15 Appendix 1 Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment Public Questionnaire Date Completed Time Completed Why are you using the pharmacy today? Prescription To buy medication To buy other products Advice Minor Ailment Scheme Emergency Contraception (morning after pill) Medicines Use Review Needle Exchange Stop Smoking Scheme Other Which of the following best describes how you use this pharmacy? This is the pharmacy I choose to visit if possible This is one of several pharmacies I use How would you rate the service you received today? Excellent Good Average Supervised Methadone/Subutex Poor Very poor Don t know How would you rate the cleanliness and Tidiness of the pharmacy? Excellent Good Average Poor Very poor Don t know How would you rate the helpfulness of the staff today? Excellent Good Average Poor Very poor Don t know How would you rate the time taken for staff to serve you? Excellent Good Average Poor Very poor Don t know This pharmacy was just convenient for me today How regularly do you visit a pharmacy (include any pharmacy you use not just the one you are using today)? Daily Weekly Monthly Every 3 months Twice a year Once a year or less How do you usually travel to your regular pharmacy, or, if you have no regular pharmacy the one you used today? Walk Cycle Public transport Taxi Car Other How long does it take you to get to the pharmacy by this method? 5 minutes or less 5-10 minutes minutes minutes minutes More than 25 minutes Are you satisfied with the opening hours of your regular pharmacy, or, if you have no regular pharmacy the one you used today? Yes No

16 In the last 12 months have you wanted to use your regular pharmacy (or if you do not have a regular pharmacy the one most convenient to you) at a time when it was closed? Yes No If yes what day of the week was it? Tick all that apply Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Bank holiday Can t remember If yes what time of the day was it? Tick all that apply Early morning 6am-9am Morning 9am-12pm Lunchtime 12pm-2pm Afternoon 2pm-6pm Evening 6pm-8pm Late evening 8pm-10pm Night 10pm-6am Can t remember If yes what did you do? Tick all that apply Waited until pharmacy was open Used a different pharmacy Went to doctor Used out of hours doctor Went to walk in centre Used NHS direct Went to hospital Can t remember Have you used a pharmacy for any of the following in the last 12 months? Tick all that apply Advice on a current health problem Disposing of medicines you no longer need Emergency Contraception (morning after pill) Prescription Delivery Service Needle Exchange Are you: Male Age: Advice on a long-term health issue Advice on where to go for other services Minor Ailment Scheme Medicines Use Review Female Advice on a more healthy lifestyle Help to stop smoking Blister pack/compliance aid Supervised Methadone/Subutex Under or over Prefer not to say Ethnicity: White Asian or Asian British Black or Black British Chinese Mixed Other Prefer not to say What is your postcode?