Simon Jupp: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase pharmacist (a) training and (b) university places.
Lord Willis of Knaresborough: To ask His Majesty's Government why VAT is applied if an NHS hospital pharmacy supplies out-patient medicine but if a private sector pharmacy supplies the same medicine it is zero-rated.
Will Quince: ...and real-time Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGMs) are available to people with type one diabetes under the NHS. CGMs can be provided under NHS prescription and sensors collected from local pharmacies. NICE is currently developing technology appraisal guidance, which considers clinical and cost effectiveness, on hybrid closed loop systems for managing blood glucose levels in people with type...
George Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the percentage of seasonal flu vaccinations which can be delivered by (a) Community Pharmacies, (b) General Practice, (c) other providers.
Baroness Bull: To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Markham on 27 June (HL8432), whether their current policy is to allow the private sale of COVID-19 vaccines through (1) pharmacies, or (2) other healthcare providers.
Neil O'Brien: The Delivery plan for recovering access to primary care includes £645 million funding over two years to expand the services offered by community pharmacies. It retargets funding to help general practices provide better access for their patients, with £240 million going to provide digital tools, telephony and training, and also leverages existing investments in NHS.uk, the NHS App, and other...
Will Quince: ...high-level plan to support the NHS workforce as a whole, covering doctors, nurses, and other key health professions. Therefore, it focuses on NHS-delivered services, such as primary care, community pharmacy and dentistry. While ophthalmologists are not explicitly covered in the plan, it does set out how the primary eye care workforce could deliver more eye care services in the community to...
Greg Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help community pharmacies manage costs and workforce shortages.
Peter Dowd: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of seasonal flu vaccinations delivered by (a) community pharmacies, (b) general practices and (c) other providers in the last 12 months.
Emma Hardy: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made assessment of the implication for its policies of Lloyds Pharmacy plan to sell pharmacy branches and contracts they hold across the UK.
the Bishop of London: ...implement recommendations contained in the Delivery Plan for Recovering Access to Primary Care, published by the NHS Confederation on 9 May, including (1) support for pharmacists to implement the Pharmacy First initiative, and (2) additional locum cover for GPs as they transition into 'modern General Practices'.
Fleur Anderson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds of the level of supply of Utrogestan; and what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) pharmacies and (b) hospitals without access to that medicine as of 30 June 2023.
Navendu Mishra: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 26 June to Question 190457 on Pharmacy: Stockport, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the availability of pharmacies in areas of deprivation.
Andrew Mitchell: ...supported the delivery of quality care to more than 2 million low-income patients including in underserved parts of central and eastern India. In Kenya, BII investment supports healthcare clinics and pharmacies that provide for more than 430,000 patient visits per month with over half of patients coming from low to very low-income groups. BII investments also provide access to a medical...
Helen Whately: ...and real-time Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGMs) are available to people with type one diabetes under the NHS. CGMs can be provided under NHS prescription and sensors collected from local pharmacies. The Dexcom One is one model of CGM that is available under the NHS. Currently the Dexcom G6 model is being considered for provision as part of the Hybrid Closed Loop (HCL) system. The HCL...
Helen Whately: ...an innovative new digital NHS Health Check that will enable more people to have a check and free up NHS staff time; rolling out free blood pressure checks to people over the age of 40 in community pharmacies to detect thousands more people living with hypertension earlier. CVD will form a part of the Government’s Major Conditions Strategy which will focus on conditions that contribute...
Helen Whately: ...an innovative new digital NHS Health Check that will enable more people to have a check and free up NHS staff time; rolling out free blood pressure checks to people over the age of 40 in community pharmacies to detect thousands more people living with hypertension earlier. CVD will form a part of the Government’s Major Conditions Strategy which will focus on conditions that contribute...
George Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 14 June 2023 to Question 188489 on Pharmacy, what his timetable is for implementation of secondary legislation on the hub and spoke model; and whether the legislation will apply to all parts of Great Britain.
Lord Markham: ...list would not be recognised. We will only recognise prescriptions issued by prescribers of equivalent professional status to those eligible to prescribe in the UK. We would expect all registered pharmacies and pharmacists to meet the regulatory standards set by the General Pharmaceutical Council or the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland when considering dispensing any lawfully...
Nadia Whittome: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the (a) the number of universities offering and (b) number of places available on Overseas Pharmacists' Assessment Programme courses.