Pharmacy: Finance
(asked on 10th March 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has held with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on delivering more sustainable funding for community pharmacies.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
Officials have regular discussions with HM Treasury on community pharmacy funding. The Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework commits £2.592 billion every year to community pharmacy from 2019 to 2024. Negotiations on what the sector will deliver in 2022/23 within this funding are ongoing. Additional funding has been available to community pharmacies for flu vaccination and COVID-19 services, including the medicines delivery service, vaccinations and Pharmacy Collect.