Pharmacy

(asked on 1st February 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to help support the long-term sustainability of community pharmacies.


Answered by
Neil O'Brien Portrait
Neil O'Brien
This question was answered on 7th February 2023

The Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework (CPCF) five-year deal 2019/24 commits £2.592 billion every year to community pharmacy.

In September 2022, we announced a one-off £100 million investment into pharmacy for the remainder of the five-year deal.

As part of the agreement announced in September, NHS England committed to working with the sector to undertake an independent economic analysis of National Health Service pharmaceutical services. This review will help inform the negotiation of the future contractual framework for community pharmacy.

The Department and NHS England are monitoring the impact of the availability of the workforce on the provision of NHS pharmaceutical services and working with community pharmacy employers to maintain patient access to the services that are commissioned from contractors. The results of Health Education England’s latest annual community pharmacy workforce survey are currently being analysed and the pharmacy workforce across the NHS is also be considered in the development of the Long-term Workforce Plan, to be published later this year.

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