Rachael Maskell: ...for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department provided for (a) staff resources, (b) expenses and (c) other costs for the (i) establishment and (ii) operation of the UK Commission on Pharmacy Professional Leadership.
Lord Markham: ...people are facing with the rising cost of living. Our extensive arrangements to help people afford NHS prescription charges, means that almost 89% of prescription items dispensed in community pharmacies in England are already provided free of charge. For those not exempt from charges, pre-payment certificates can be used to cap costs at just over £2 a week for regular prescriptions....
Chris Green: ...if his Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of (a) automated dispensing technology, (b) digital consultations and (c) other digital technologies on levels of efficiency in the pharmacy sector.
Chris Green: ...for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Delivery plan for recovering access to primary care, published on 9 May 2023, what assessment his Department has made of the potential role of the pharmacy sector in helping patients to monitor (a) high blood pressure and (b) other long-term conditions at home.
Daisy Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Delivery plan for recovering access to primary care, published on 9 May 2023, whether pharmacists will be able to (a) amend and (b) add entries to shared patient medical records.
Daisy Cooper: ...published on 9 May 2023, what her planned timetable is for working with suppliers to identify medicines which could be reclassified from being available only on prescription to being available in a pharmacy.
Chris Green: ...and Social Care, with reference to the Delivery plan for recovering access to primary care, published on 9 May 2023, what steps his Department is taking to improve IT connectivity between community pharmacies and other parts of the NHS.
Will Quince: ...on the number of patients in England and Wales with continence care needs. Continence care needs may be managed by individuals in a range of ways, products can be bought from supermarkets, pharmacies or mail order and are available on prescription under the National Health Service. For a continence product to be able to be prescribed, it must be listed on ‘Part IX’ of the Drug Tariff....
Helen Whately: ...professionals. A new action in England’s second action plan, published in February 2023, will see rare diseases incorporated in the educational strategies for the nursing and midwifery, pharmacy and primary care workforce. Progress made over the year ahead will be detailed in England’s 2024 Rare Diseases Action Plan.
Will Quince: ...National Health Service and local authorities to improve hospital discharge. Following discharge, the Discharge Medicines Service (DMS) enables hospitals to refer discharged patients to community pharmacy with information about medication changes made in hospital, community pharmacy can support patients to improve outcomes and prevent harm. Pharmacy delivery services are not usually...
Neil O'Brien: There are no plans to provide free prescriptions for immunosuppressants for transplant patients. Approximately 89% of prescription items are currently dispensed free of charge in community pharmacies and there is a wide range of exemptions from prescription charges already in place for which transplant patients may meet the eligibility criteria and be in receipt of free prescriptions. In...
Andrew Gwynne: ...Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of making pre-exposure prophylaxis available as part of plans to make prescription medications accessible directly in community pharmacies.
Lord Markham: ...is required. Evidence collected or information received at any time may trigger an assessment. The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has not found any recent systemic issues affecting any pharmacies providing homecare medicines services in England.
Rachael Maskell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of pharmacists working in the community; what assessment he has made of the potential impact of direct referral will impact on the number of pharmacists required; and what estimate he has made of that number.
Neil O'Brien: ...on average six percentage points higher than the national average, and case studies show these gains can be much higher. We will also make better use of the clinical capacity within community pharmacies so they can play a larger role in delivery of primary care, helping to take the pressure off GPs and providing patients with more options for care. We expect this to free up around 10...
Neil O'Brien: ...in 2023/24 for new technologies and support offers. These will, for example, make home blood pressure monitoring easier, improve the digital infrastructure between general practice and community pharmacy, and help practices implement digital telephony and a Modern General Practice Access approach. These should improve productivity by saving time for general practice teams, and reducing...
Kim Leadbeater: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 27 April 2023 to Question 182114 on Prescriptions, whether his Department plans to issue guidance to pharmacies to help ensure that prescriptions for residents of care homes are dispensed and dispatched promptly.
Nadia Whittome: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the closure of pharmacy practices on health inequalities in the Nottingham East constituency.
Rachael Maskell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to require pharmacists to review medicine prescriptions to ensure that patients are not prescribed medication that is no longer necessary.
Rachael Maskell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it is his policy that interventions by (a) community pharmacists and (b) physiotherapists should be recorded on a single clinical record system.