Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to evolve Medicines Use Reviews to enable community pharmacists to better support people with long-term conditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure.

The Department is committed to supporting people with long term conditions manage their illness and take their medication correctly. In line with this ambition, eligibility for Medicine Use Reviews was amended from April 2015, to better target these services at patients who would derive the most benefit from it. This change required 70% of Medicine Use Reviews to be held with people within key target groups which included people with conditions such as diabetes or high blood pressure.

The Department continues to develop and monitor the evidence base and effectiveness of all Advanced Services provided by community pharmacists to improve patient outcomes and make the best use of National Health Service resources. It will continue to do so and develop plans accordingly.