Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to expand the role of pharmacies.
Community pharmacies provide vital front line health services. We want them to be even more integrated with the wider health system and used more often by the public for their health needs. We are taking action to make that happen; for example, we have re-commissioned the delivery of flu vaccinations and will be re-running the ‘stay well this winter campaign’ this year.