Andrea Leadsom: The seven Pharmacy First conditions were determined by a Clinical Reference Group led by NHS England, with clinical expertise across primary care and including representatives from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to ensure the treatment pathways were designed according to the latest NICE guidance. The service design was also informed by services locally...
Steve Brine: The community pharmacy IT infrastructure is being modernised, enabling the integration of community pharmacies within the wider National Health Service. In 2016 the Quality Payments Scheme was introduced to align an element of payment to quality and to support integration. The scheme has led to a number of improvements including the roll out of NHS Mail to 11,411 pharmacies across England,...
Maria Caulfield: Health Education England (HEE) conducted a community pharmacy workforce survey between May and June 2021. This indicated a 5% reduction in headcount compared with the last workforce survey in 2017, except for pharmacists and trained dispensing assistants which increased by 18% and 15% respectively. These estimates are based on responses from 47% of community pharmacies. HEE expects to repeat...
Steve Brine: The total number of repeat dispensing prescription items issued by wholly distance selling pharmacies, including internet pharmacies, and other community pharmacies, including those on the high street, for each year since April 2013 in England is detailed in the table below: Time Period Repeat Dispensing Prescription Items for Distant Selling Pharmacies Repeat Dispensing Prescription...
James Morris: In England there are over 11,000 community pharmacies providing National Health Service pharmaceutical services. An estimated 98% of the population in areas of high deprivation live within 20 minutes’ walk of a community pharmacy. The Department monitors the market and works with NHS England to ensure patient access to pharmaceutical services is maintained. The Pharmacy Access Scheme...
Andrea Leadsom: Every year in winter, demand for services in the National Health Service increases and community pharmacies are playing a growing role in supporting the NHS to meet this demand. Pharmacies in England already deliver a wider range of NHS services including advice on newly prescribed medicines for long-term conditions, blood pressure checks, oral contraception consultations and minor illness...
Jo Churchill: The Department does not hold the information requested. The General Pharmaceutical Council holds data on the temporary register of all pharmacy professionals which was created due to the COVID-19 outbreak. However, the temporary register data does not contain information on how many of those pharmacy professionals previously worked in community pharmacy or would intend to work in community...
Steve Brine: This information is not available in the format requested. The attached document contains information on "bricks and mortar" pharmacies, which encompasses all community pharmacies which can provide essential National Health Service pharmaceutical services face-to-face at their physical location; and distance selling pharmacies that provide essential NHS pharmaceutical services online or over...
Rachel Maclean: The Ask for ANI Codeword Scheme celebrated it’s one-year anniversary earlier this year. The voluntary scheme was rolled out to pharmacies across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. It has now been adopted by over 50% of pharmacies in the UK and over 100 official disclosures have been made. We continue to work with partners across the UK, including pharmacy associations, to...
Maria Caulfield: No assessment has been made. The Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework 2019-24 sets out the ambition for community pharmacy to be further integrated into the National Health Service, making better use of the clinical skills of pharmacists, provide more clinical services and provide treatment for minor illnesses. Negotiations with the Pharmaceutical Service Negotiating Committee on what...
Jo Churchill: Guidance on working safely is available on GOV.UK for people who work in community pharmacies and a COVID-19 standard operating procedure for community pharmacy has been published by NHS England and NHS Improvement. The first part of this year’s Pharmacy Quality Scheme focuses on activities to support the response to COVID-19, including the requirement to complete individual COVID-19 risk...
Maria Caulfield: The Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework (CPCF) sets out the vision for community pharmacy to provide treatment for minor illnesses, support for self care and health advice. Many community pharmacies deliver the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service which enables general practitioners and NHS 111 to refer patients to a pharmacist for advice on and treatment of minor illnesses. We...
Phil Hope: In the White Paper "Pharmacy in England: Building on strengths - delivering the future", the Government stated that they consider that chief pharmacists of provider organisations, primary care trusts (PCTs) and other commissioners should have the lead role in ensuring that safe medication practices are embedded in patient care. To support this, and at the request of the Department, the...
Rosie Winterton: ...service to prisoners that is equivalent in quality and range to that in the wider community. Primary care trusts (PCTs) which host prisons became responsible for commissioning services, including pharmacy, to meet the healthcare needs of prisoners in April 2006. In June 2003, "A Pharmacy Service for Prisoners", published by HM Prison Service and the Department, made a number of...
Andrea Leadsom: National Health Service pharmaceutical services are either: essential, which all pharmacies must provide; advanced, which all pharmacies can opt into providing; or enhanced, commissioned from selected pharmacies by NHS England or integrated care boards. An increasing number of advanced services are being delivered as part of the national Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework including the...
Steve Brine: We are monitoring the market carefully and apart from the recent announcement by Lloyds Pharmacy there have been no significant closures since the introduction of the reforms. Access to Pharmaceutical Services is good with 88% of people falling within a 20 minute walk of a community pharmacy. For areas where there are fewer pharmacies our access scheme continues to provide additional...
Jo Churchill: ... We have re-prioritised the services commissioned by the National Health Service and have delayed the introduction of new services and pilot programmes to maximise capacity in community pharmacy to supply medicines and provide health advice. We have also worked with the General Pharmaceutical Council to increase the workforce available. NHS England and NHS Improvement has updated...
John Hutton: holding answer 7 March 2002 There has been a significant increase in pharmacy student intakes over recent years, with 27 per cent. more new students starting their training in 2000 than in 1993. This points to a significant medium-term growth in the pharmacy work force, despite the change to a 4-year undergraduate course in 1997. Full figures are not yet available from the Pharmaceutical...
Alistair Burt: Community pharmacy is a vital part of the National Health Service and can play an even greater role. In the Spending Review the Government re-affirmed the need for the NHS to deliver £22 billion in efficiency savings by 2020/21 as set out in the NHS’s own plan, the Five Year Forward View. Community pharmacy is a core part of NHS primary care and has an important contribution to make as the...
David Mowat: Community pharmacy is a vital part of the National Health Service and can play an even greater role. In the Spending Review the Government re-affirmed the need for the NHS to deliver £22 billion in efficiency savings by 2020/21 as set out in the NHS’s own plan, the Five Year Forward View. Community pharmacy is a core part of NHS primary care and has an important contribution to make as the...