Asked by: Baroness Merron (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Markham on 16 February (HL2398), whether they have increased the maximum funding for medical degree apprentices from £50,000 to £150,000 over the term of the course.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The funding of £150,000 to be provided by NHS England per medical degree apprentice is an increase of the funding of £50,000 for medical degree apprentices announced by Health Education England in January 2023.
Asked by: Baroness Merron (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the potential for community pharmacists to administer the MMR vaccine.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
As part of the national measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) improvement plan, NHS England has worked with regional commissioners to assess the potential for community pharmacy to deliver MMR vaccines, as part of a longer-term approach to improving uptake.
In specific response to the current measles outbreak, some areas have stood up community pharmacy sites on a time-limited basis to deliver the MMR vaccine to specific cohorts, based on local population need. For example, in the North West and the Midlands, National Health Service teams have used community pharmacies to step up their efforts to get more children protected with the MMR vaccine.
Using community pharmacy in this way will help to test the concept of community pharmacy playing a greater role in the delivery of vaccinations, and will support the integrated care boards’ work to develop a more coherent approach to vaccines, including where, when, and how to deliver them to maximise uptake, particularly in underserved populations.