Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the projected costs are for the Pharmacy Access Scheme in each quarter up to March 2019.
From 1 April this year interim arrangements for the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework were agreed with the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee. These run until 31 March 2019. Under these arrangements Pharmacy Access Scheme payments remain the same as they were in 2017/18 at approximately £6.2 million per quarter.