Pharmacy: Disadvantaged

(asked on 3rd July 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 26 June to Question 190457 on Pharmacy: Stockport, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the availability of pharmacies in areas of deprivation.


Answered by
Neil O'Brien Portrait
Neil O'Brien
This question was answered on 6th July 2023

There remains good access to National Health Service pharmaceutical services in England, with 80% of the population within 20 minutes walking distance to their nearest pharmacy. Access to pharmaceutical services is better in the most deprived areas with these communities having twice as many pharmacies as those in the least deprived areas.

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