Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has plans to expand the NHS Community Pharmacy Contraception Management Service Pilot; and when that pilot will be (a) evaluated and (b) progressed to Tier 2.

The Pharmacy Integration Fund Tier 1 pilot is currently active, testing the on-going management, review and supply of oral contraception from community pharmacy for people on a regime initiated in general practice or sexual health clinics. The interim evaluation in early 2022 will be used to inform the development of any future community pharmacy service which manages oral contraception. This would be subject to negotiations with the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee, as would the commencement of a Tier 2 pilot and deployment of the service.