Pharmacy: Finance
(asked on 16th March 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of increasing community pharmacy funding beyond the existing funding arrangement.
This question was answered on 22nd March 2022
The Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework for 2019 to 2024 commits £2.592 billion each year to community pharmacy. Additional funding has been available to community pharmacies for flu vaccination and the medicines delivery service, COVID-19 vaccination and Pharmacy Collect. Negotiations with the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee on what the sector will deliver in 2022/23 are ongoing.