Pharmacy: Wakefield

(asked on 13th July 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of pharmacies in Wakefield (a) constituency and (b) district.


Answered by
Neil O'Brien Portrait
Neil O'Brien
This question was answered on 19th July 2023

The consolidated National Health Service pharmaceutical list is published once a quarter and can be accessed via the NHS Business Services Authority Open Data portal, which is available at the following link:

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/consolidated-pharmaceutical-list

This shows that as of March 2023 there were 22 pharmacies in Wakefield constituency and 74 in Wakefield district.

The Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework 2019-24 five-year deal commits £2.592 billion each year to the sector. In September 2022, we announced an additional one-off £100 million investment across this and last financial year. In May, as part of the Delivery plan for recovering access to primary care, we announced a further investment of up to £645 million over two years to expand the services offered by community pharmacies.

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