Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he take steps to ensure that the public is consulted prior to bringing forward legislative proposals to grant pharmacists the power to amend prescriptions as they see fit in the event of shortages of medicine.
Helen Whately: ...NHS England and NHS Improvement have provided a complementary scheme so that social care workers and hospice workers can also obtain the flu vaccination through their general practitioner or local pharmacy. This scheme will continue in 2020/21. NHS England and NHS Improvement monitor the number of social care workers vaccinated through community pharmacies. However, national data...
Christopher Pincher: .... For those who have requested support, we have delivered over 2.5 million food packages to those at highest risk across England, and an NHS Medicine Delivery Service is available from community pharmacies and dispensing doctors where family, friends or volunteers cannot collect prescriptions. In April alone community pharmacies provided over 400,000 free medicine deliveries to shielding...
Jo Churchill: ...how to increase uptake of vaccinations and consider if vaccines could be safely and efficiently delivered by providers other than general practice, building on the contribution of community pharmacies to seasonal influenza coverage, and the possibility to widen the range of health professionals who deliver vaccinations. Any changes in delivery models would be carefully considered with due...
Nadine Dorries: Holding answer received on 04 June 2020 Some United Kingdom providers such as high street pharmacies and private healthcare providers offer COVID-19 antibody testing for members of the public. The test involves collecting a fingerprick blood sample into a small container following a set of instructions. The container is then sent to a laboratory for analysis and the results are...
Jo Churchill: .... The NHS, industry and the Armed Forces have created a PPE distribution network almost from scratch, providing drops of critical equipment to 58,000 healthcare settings including GPs and pharmacies. The Government is working with e-commerce expertise to pilot a new online portal to help primary and social care providers to order critical PPE. Over 1.6billion items of PPE have been...
Rosie Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that all pharmacy staff have access to (a) covid-19 tests and (b) personal protective equipment during the covid-19 outbreak; and if he will make a statement.
Theresa Villiers: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure community pharmacies can obtain personal protective equipment during the covid-19 pandemic.
Rosie Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the additional funding needs of the community pharmacy sector during the covid-19 outbreak; and if he will make a statement.
Jo Churchill: ...to vaccination, so that more people who are eligible for flu vaccination are protected this winter. To improve access to vaccinations is already available through general practice, community pharmacies, schools, community and other National Health Service settings. We will be publishing a further annual flu letter 2020/21 which will provide more detailed information on the flu programme...
Jo Churchill: ...shortages. NHS England and NHS Improvement have advised clinical commissioning groups to establish local hubs to ensure rapid access to anticipatory medicines. These hubs could be a community pharmacy, primary care network (general practitioner practice), community hospital, acute or other setting where palliative medicines (including controlled drugs) can be safely and legally stored and...
Jo Churchill: ...are still available, and the importance of keeping up to date with routine childhood immunisations during the pandemic. They have also produced resources for hospitals, general practices, pharmacies and other NHS settings. These have been shared across the health system, including local authorities and local NHS trusts to help them disseminate this messaging and are available at the...
Jo Churchill: .... Systems set up to supply 226 NHS trusts have increased their operations in a matter of weeks to provide drops of critical equipment to 58,000 healthcare settings including general practitioners, pharmacies and social care providers. The creation of this PPE distribution network has required a huge increase in the logistics capability.
Jo Churchill: ...need to tackle this outbreak. Systems set up to supply 226 NHS trusts have scaled up to provide drops of critical equipment to 58,000 healthcare settings including general practitioners (GPs), pharmacies and social care providers. We have made over 24 million items of PPE available to primary care providers
Lord Rennard: To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the case for suspending charging for prescriptions in England to assist pharmacies and patients by removing the need to collect and pay such charges during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lord Mawson: To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the support required by pharmacies during the COVID-19 pandemic; and what steps, if any, they are taking to ensure that any shortfall in such support is addressed.
Judith Cummins: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps are being taken to help community pharmacies handle increased patient walk-ins as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.
Jo Churchill: .... Systems set up to supply 226 NHS trusts have increased their operations in a matter of weeks to provide drops of critical equipment to 58,000 healthcare settings including general practitioners, pharmacies and social care providers. This has required a huge increase in the logistics capability.
Jo Churchill: ...in the Health Service Products (Provision and Disclosure of Information) Regulations 2018. However, it is too early to assess the full financial impact on the National Health Service and pharmacies in light of COVID-19.
Jo Churchill: .../attachment_data/file/884718/Annual_flu_letter _short_2020_to_2021_v8__002_.pdf To increase patient choice, adults who are eligible will be able to access the vaccine through their local community pharmacy, as well as via their general practice.