Pharmacy
(asked on 12th September 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many times the Pharmacy First service has been used in each month since its launch.
This question was answered on 8th October 2024
Pharmacy First was launched on 31 January 2024, and the overall service consists of three core elements:
- clinical pathways, a new element;
- urgent medicine supply, previously commissioned as the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service; and
- National Health Service referrals to Community Pharmacy for minor illness, previously commissioned as the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service.
The following table shows a breakdown of all claimed consultations from February to May 2024:
| Number of claimed consultations | ||
| Clinical pathways | Urgent medicine supply | Minor illness |
February 2024 | 125,275 | 78,831 | 137,396 |
March 2024 | 144,389 | 95,789 | 131,715 |
April 2024 | 153,646 | 90,851 | 126,193 |
May 2024 | 168,447 | 110,710 | 127,706 |
Total | 591,757 | 376,181 | 523,010 |