Hospitals: Pharmacy
(asked on 15th January 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of NHS Trusts that have outsourced their (a) pharmacies and (b) outpatient pharmacies.
This question was answered on 20th January 2020
The Department is not aware of any acute National Health Service trust that has outsourced its entire pharmacy service.
An NHS benchmarking survey, last year, in which 110 of 151 acute and specialist NHS trusts took part, indicated that around 50% of NHS trusts had outsourced their outpatient pharmacies: of these, 16% are wholly owned subsidiaries and 34% with a commercial partner.