Supplementary travel access analysis
May 2023
At the request of the PNA steering group, this summary will look at public transport access to community pharmacies on a Sunday before and after the imminent closure of the Lloyds pharmacy in Newhaven.
One of the criteria, agreed by the steering group for the PNA, for assessing access included 30 minutes travel time from an open pharmacy. Where car ownership was low (which included parts of Lewes district around Peacehaven, Newhaven and Seaford) it was important to consider public transport access.
Section 10.1 page 151
Unfortunately, it has not been possible to repeat the specific analyses undertaken in the PNA as the team who provided the analysis does not have capacity to assist. Therefore, we have used the SHAPE tool which is made available by the Department of Health and Social Care to support various workstreams, including the production of PNAs.
Whist the travel time element in SHAPE does not specifically look at Sunday travel times, it does provide a view for weekend mornings and weekend afternoons. We have looked at both of these periods in the maps below.
Map 1: Community pharmacies open on a Sunday including Newhaven Lloyds. Shaded areas reflect public transport travel times on a weekend morning to any open pharmacy.
Map 2: Community pharmacies open on a Sunday excluding Newhaven Lloyds. Shaded areas reflect public transport travel times on a weekend morning to any open pharmacy.
Map 3: Community pharmacies open on a Sunday including Newhaven Lloyds. Shaded areas reflect public transport travel times on a weekend afternoon to any open pharmacy.
Map 4: Community pharmacies open on a Sunday excluding Newhaven Lloyds. Shaded areas reflect public transport travel times on a weekend afternoon to any open pharmacy.
Options to be considered by the steering group.
With the closure of Lloyds Newhaven on 13th June
1. No gap identified.
2. Gap identified, supplementary statement to be issued.
3. Gap identified, supplementary statement to be issued pending re-writing of the whole PNA.