Lord Markham: ...information regarding the private purchase of COVID-19 vaccines. We continue to develop options for the future supply of COVID-19 vaccines. We would expect private healthcare providers, including pharmacies, to inform the public if, and when, the option to purchase a COVID-19 vaccination becomes available in the United Kingdom.
Layla Moran: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made made of the potential impact of pharmacy closures in (a) England and (b) Oxford West and Abingdon constituency on practising pharmacy services.
Daisy Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish his Department's response to the consultation entitled Hub and spoke dispensing, published on 16 March 2022.
Afzal Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of an uplift in funding for pharmacies.
Navendu Mishra: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of pharmacies in (a) Stockport constituency and (b) Stockport Borough.
Vicky Foxcroft: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of pharmacists working within rheumatology services.
George Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care,what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of pharmacists working within rheumatology services.
Maria Caulfield: ...from tailored health care and support by the new hubs, improving access and quality of care for women’s health services including contraception. Furthermore, in April we introduced the NHS Pharmacy Contraception Service. This service offers greater choice in how people can access contraception services. At this moment, community pharmacies can manage ongoing oral contraception for women....
Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle: ...His Majesty's Government, further to the delivery plan for recovering access to primary care published on 9 May, what steps they are taking to ensure that the training provided to pharmacists and pharmacy staff equips them with the necessary skills to prescribe antibiotics.
Feryal Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that there is an adequate supply of medication to pharmacies in Enfield North constituency.
Seema Malhotra: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with primary care (a) representative groups and (b) practitioners on the role of community pharmacy in the Primary Care Access Recovery Plan.
George Howarth: ...instrument proposed in his Department's consultation of 16 March 2022 to allow the operation of hub and spoke dispensing models across different legal entities so that independent community pharmacies may compete on a level playing field with vertically integrated group pharmacies and have the capacity to deliver on the Pharmacy First proposals in his May 2023 Delivery Plan for Recovering...
Florence Eshalomi: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing access to PrEP at community pharmacies.
Neil O'Brien: ...contact and access their practice services in a timely way. That is why on 9 May 2023 we published our Delivery Plan for Recovering Access to Primary Care, which included the commitment to launch Pharmacy First so that by the end of 2023 community pharmacies can supply prescription only medicines for seven common conditions. Together with expanding pharmacy oral contraception and blood...
Will Quince: 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. There are over 3,000 listed continence products on Part IX available to be...
Grahame Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will meet the (a) Royal College of Radiologists, (b) Association of Cancer Physicians, (c) British Oncology Pharmacy Association and (d) UK Oncology Nursing Society to discuss the impact of changes in the level of capacity in oncology departments on the timely delivery of cancer drug treatments.
Dan Carden: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure there is an adequate supply of medication to pharmacies in Liverpool.
Rachael Maskell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the (a) co-chairs and (b) other members of the UK Commission on Pharmacy Professional Leadership were paid for this work by his Department.
Lord Markham: ...information is not held centrally. The Care Quality Commission does not have a regulated activity of prescribing or dispensing. The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) regulates pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and pharmacies in England, Scotland and Wales. The Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland regulates pharmacists and pharmacies in Northern Ireland. All pharmacies in Great...
Neil O'Brien: ...compared to 2019. Our Recovery Plan for Primary Care supports practices to address access challenges by tackling the 8am rush for appointments, cutting bureaucracy for GPs and expanding community pharmacy services.