Dementia: Health Services

(asked on 3rd June 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding has been awarded for dementia care in each of the last five years; and how much of that funding has been allocated to community pharmacists.


Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 6th June 2019

This information requested is not held centrally.

NHS England allocates funding to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and specialised commissioning which commission services on behalf of their local populations. It is for CCGs and specialised commissioning to decide how best to use the funding allocated to them in line with local healthcare needs and priorities, working with other local commissioners and organisations.

At April 2017, the total sum payable to community pharmacy under the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework included £75 million reallocated to a Quality Payments Scheme. Between April 2017 and June 2019, £11.8 million of this funding was paid to community pharmacy contractors recognising their successful achievement of an indicator requiring their patient-facing staff to become dementia friends.

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