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.
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 |