Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that there is an adequate supply of essential services provided by pharmacies, particularly the assembly of blister medication packs to support the safe administration of medicines at home by patients, care workers and unpaid carers.

Compliance support services, for example the dispensing of medicines in blister medication packs, are not nationally commissioned and therefore no data is available on how many compliance aids are assembled every year in England. Under the Equality Act 2010, pharmacies must make reasonable adjustments to their services to help patients covered by the Act which could include compliance aids where appropriate.