Pharmacy: Prescriptions
(asked on 5th December 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of pharmacists have trained to become independent prescribers in each of the last three years.
This question was answered on 18th December 2023
The following table shows the number of pharmacists with independent prescribing annotations on the General Pharmaceutical Council’s (GPhC) Register in England:
| Number of independent prescribers (England) | Proportion of GPhC register (England) |
October 2023 | 14,280 | 26.3% |
October 2022 | 11,984 | 22.7% |
October 2021 | 9,884 | 19.6% |