Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of calls made to NHS 111 resulted in a referral to pharmacy in (a) England and (b) each clinical commissioning group in each year since 2012-13.

This information is not available in the format requested.

From 2012/13 until June 2017, NHS111 referrals to ‘dental/pharmacy’ were recorded together and it is not possible to provide disaggregated figures. From July 2017 onwards, referrals to dentists and pharmacists are recorded separately and published monthly at national and regional level. The latest data is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/nhs-111-minimum-data-set/nhs-111-minimum-data-set-2017-18/