Asked by: Lord Hughes of Woodside (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord O'Shaughnessy on 30 October (HL Deb, col 1152), whether they will publish the tariff of fees paid to pharmacists for providing vaccinations in retail and community settings.
Answered by Lord O'Shaughnessy
Community pharmacy contractors are paid £9.14 per vaccination to immunise patients against seasonal flu. General practitioner contractors are paid £9.80 per vaccination to immunise patients against seasonal flu. Both are reimbursed for the cost of the vaccine administered.
The differential is because GPs are required to call and recall eligible patients from their practice list for the vaccination. Community pharmacy cannot do this as they do not have a practice list.
Information on the payment arrangements for community pharmacy delivered flu vaccination for 2017/18 is contained in the Service Specification, Community pharmacy seasonal influenza advanced service. This was published by NHS England in August 2017. A copy is attached.
Asked by: Lord Hughes of Woodside (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 16 July (HL Deb, col 686) regarding police ambulance support, what number of conveyances to Accident and Emergency departments 0.1 per cent represents.
Answered by Lord Prior of Brampton
A Metropolitan Police (MPS) Freedom of Information revealed that they conveyed 931 patients to hospital in 2014. This makes up 0.1% of London Ambulance Service’s (LAS) case load in the same year. MPS and LAS continue to work together to develop protocols for dealing with the issue.
Asked by: Lord Hughes of Woodside (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much was paid by NHS England to private health providers for treatments for National Health Service patients in each of the last five years; and how those figures compare to costs in (1) Scotland, (2) Wales, and (3) Northern Ireland.
Answered by Earl Howe - Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
Commissioner spending on private providers for NHS health care services in each of the last five years is outlined in the table below:
Year | Spend (£ million) |
2009-10 | 4,144 |
2010-11 | 4,757 |
2011-12 | 5,320 |
2012-13 | 5,669 |
2013-14 | 6,390 |
For financial years 2009-10 to 2012-13, this covers spending by Primary Care Trusts. For financial year 2013-14, this covers spending by NHS England and local clinical commissioning groups, over which NHS England has financial oversight.
The Department only holds information on spending on NHS services in England, as health is a devolved matter.