Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to implement the recommendations of the review conducted by Mark Hackett, 'Homecare Medicines: Towards a Vision for the Future', published in 2011; and what assessment they have made of the progress towards full implementation.

The recommendations of the 2011 Hackett review were implemented with the publications of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s ‘Professional Standards for Homecare Services in England’ in 2013 and in 2014 with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s ‘Handbook for Homecare Services in England’ to aid implementation of the 2013 standards.

Homecare medicines services deliver ongoing medicine supplies and, where necessary, associated care, initiated by the hospital prescriber, direct to the patient’s home with their consent. Homecare medicines services offer many benefits to patients and the National Health Service including patients receiving their medicines at home, reducing the need to visit secondary care services for example, hospital outpatient settings and improving access to new medicines for patients.