Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 31 July to Question HL9573 in the House of Lords on NHS: Drugs, what assessment the has made of the adequacy of the (a) complaints system, (b) performance and (c) safety of homecare medicines services.

While no assessment has been made by the Department, the House of Lords Public Services Select Committee published its report on Homecare Medicines Services on 16 November 2023. NHS England has also been carrying out a desktop exercise to review homecare medicines services. The next steps are to bring together data from the desktop exercise with the House of Lords inquiry report recommendations to shape a programme of work on homecare medicines. The Department is carefully considering all the conclusions and recommendations made in the report and will respond in due course.