Primary Health Care: Pharmacy

(asked on 15th January 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she plans to increase services offered by community pharmacies.


Answered by
Andrea Leadsom Portrait
Andrea Leadsom
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 22nd January 2024

Pharmacies across England, including in Knowsley, can already choose to deliver a wider range of NHS funded services including for example providing advice on newly prescribed medicines for long term conditions, blood pressure checks, oral contraception consultations and minor illness referrals from GPs, NHS111 and Urgent and Emergency Care. Early in 2024 we will expand the NHS funded service offer in community pharmacy and launch Pharmacy First. The service will enable community pharmacists to manage seven common conditions including the supply of prescription-only medicines without a prescription from a GP. The seven conditions are: sinusitis, sore throat, earache, infected insect bite, impetigo, shingles and uncomplicated urinary tract infections in women.

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