Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information the National Homecare Medicines Committee has provided to the (a) Care Quality Commission, (b) General Pharmaceutical Council and (c) Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency on the adequacy of the (i) performance and (ii) safety of homecare medicines services in the last three years.

The National Homecare Medicines Committee (NHMC) has provided no information to the Care Quality Commission or to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency about the adequacy of the performance and safety of homecare medicines providers in the last three years. The General Pharmaceutical Council has had occasional meetings with the NHMC in the past, more than three years ago. It has now been invited to attend NHMC quarterly meetings and has been taking part in those meetings since November 2023.