Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he plans to publish the amount of funding allocated to the Pharmacy Integration Fund for 2018-19.
The actual and estimated expenditure on the Pharmacy Integration fund for 2017/18 is set out below:
2017/18 | ||
Budget item | Actual spend | Estimated additional spend |
Regional and national staff | £157,673 | £305,531 |
Contractors | £12,100 |
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Public and Patient volunteer payments | £1,444 | £4,404 |
Communications | £808,600 | £20,000 |
NHS Urgent Medicines Supply Advanced Service (NUMSAS) | £256,581.50 | £933,819 |
NUMSAS infrastructure |
| £700,000 |
GP Pharmacist Programme | £5,000,000 | |
Miscellaneous expenses | £40,537 | £46,820 |
Subtotal (Actual Spend) | £6,276,936 |
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Budget allocated to additional areas | ||
Integrated Urgent Care Pharmacist Programme |
| £517,860 |
Education and Development Programme |
| £5,100,000 |
NHS Digital |
| £585,000 |
Digital Minor Illness Referral – Community Pharmacy Referral Scheme |
| £250,000 |
Evaluation |
| £460,000 |
Pharmacy system leadership development work |
| £3,000,000 |
Subtotal (estimated additional spend) |
| £11,923,434 |
Total Estimated Spend 2017/18 | £18,200,370 |
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As a result of the 2017 general election pre-election period and subsequent appointment of new Government ministers put a temporary stop to procurements in April-July 2017. National Health Service priorities were assessed and a decision was made to postpone the mobilisation of the Medicines Optimisation in Care Homes Programme until 2018/19 given wider funding pressures.
The provisional budget for 2018/19 is under review given outcome of the Budget.