Pharmacy

(asked on 21st November 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she make an assessment of the potential merits of incorporating advanced services for pharmacy within the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework.


Answered by
Andrea Leadsom Portrait
Andrea Leadsom
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 27th November 2023

National Health Service pharmaceutical services are either: essential, which all pharmacies must provide; advanced, which all pharmacies can opt into providing; or enhanced, commissioned from selected pharmacies by NHS England or integrated care boards.

An increasing number of advanced services are being delivered as part of the national Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework including the New Medicines Service, Contraception Service, Blood Pressure Check Service, Stop Smoking Service. The new Pharmacy First service will also be introduced as an advanced service.

Integrated care boards can commission enhanced services to complement national services and to meet the needs of the local populations. The types of services that can be commissioned as an enhanced service are set out in the Pharmaceutical Services (Advanced and Enhanced Services) (England) Directions.

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