Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the hub and spoke model for dispensing pharmaceutical products.
The Government’s initial assessment of the effectiveness of hub and spoke dispensing arrangements was set out within the Consultation Impact Assessment on hub and spoke dispensing, published alongside our consultation proposals on 16 March 2022. It is available at the following link:
As part of the consultation process, we received useful additional evidence from stakeholders, and are using this to finalise our impact assessment.