Healthy Living Pharmacies
Published on: 2nd August 2013 | Updated on: 22nd May 2025
The Healthy Living Pharmacy (HLP) framework aims to achieve a consistent provision of a broad range of health promotion interventions through community pharmacies to meet local need, improving the health and wellbeing of the local population and helping to reduce health inequalities.
Pharmacy owners were required to become a HLP in 2020/21 as agreed in the five-year CPCF; this reflected the priority attached to public health and prevention work.
The NHS Terms of Service were amended to include HLP requirements, with supplementary information on the details being included in guidance on the regulations, which were published by NHS England. Pharmacy owners had to ensure they were compliant with the HLP requirements from 1st January 2021, and the Distance Selling Pharmacy (DSP) website requirements had to be complied with from 1st April 2021.
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Introduction and background information
How to become an HLP or maintain that status
For more information on this topic please email services.team@cpe.org.uk
