Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government which (1) medicines, and (2) medical devices, are currently being provided and delivered by homecare medicines services.

Homecare medicines services can be designed to satisfy a variety of different requirements to meet the needs of the patient and the NHS Trust. The different types of services delivered are set out on Page 11 of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s 2014 Handbook for Homecare Services, a copy of which is attached; these also describe the use of medicines and medical devices where appropriate.

NHS England’s Commercial Medicines Unit manages four national framework agreements for specialist services covering home parenteral nutrition, enzyme replacement therapy, lysosomal storage disorders and bleeding disorders. The individual homecare medicines contracts and agreements are for the service provision to deliver the required medicine and medical devices where necessary; the devices will take the form of pumps and ancillaries required to administer the medication.