Primary Health Care

(asked on 20th July 2021) - 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 7 July 2021 to Question 23077 on Primary health care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of referrals from the NHS 111 referral service to community pharmacy for self-treatable conditions in each month since November 2020.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 27th August 2021

The following table shows the number of referrals to the Community Pharmacist Consultation Scheme (CPCS) from NHS 111 for minor illnesses in each month since November 2020:

Month

NHS 111 minor illness CPCS referrals

November 2020

22,165

December 2020

20,063

January 2021

23,600

February 2021

19,475

March 2021

24,574

April 2021

29,250

May 2021

37,390

June 2021

29,448

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