Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's consultation entitled, Community pharmacy drug reimbursement reform, published in July 2019, what steps he is taking to undertake an impact assessment of the possible effect of those reforms on the practices of dispensing GPs.

The Department’s consultation on changes to the reimbursement of pharmacy contractors has now closed and responses are being analysed. The impact assessment that was published alongside the consultation document will be updated with information provided by respondents to the consultation which includes dispensing doctors and bodies representing them.