Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has for the future funding of community pharmacies.
In July 2019, we set out our landmark five-year Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework (CPCF) deal to deliver an expanded role for community pharmacy. The deal commits £2.592 billion per year to community pharmacy from 2019-20 to 2023-24. This amounts to almost £13 billion across the five years.
We set out that we would reprioritise funding, moving to a more service based contractual framework. The Department and NHS England and NHS Improvement will continue to work with the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee to develop and deliver this joint vision. A more detailed breakdown of the funding can be found in the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework at the following link: