Pharmacy Integration Fund

(asked on 28th November 2017) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 6th December 2017

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

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

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

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.

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