Pharmacy
(asked on 31st March 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of pharmacies in (a) Bournemouth West constituency, (b) Dorset, (c) the South West and (d) England.
The NHS Business Services Authority publishes the consolidated pharmaceutical list every quarter, with further information available at the following link:
https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/consolidated-pharmaceutical-list
The following table shows the number of pharmacies, broken down by type, in Bournemouth West, Dorset, the South West, and England, as of 31 December 2024:
Pharmacy type | Bournemouth West | Dorset | South West | England |
Community pharmacies | 20 | 132 | 895 | 10,023 |
Distance selling pharmacies | 0 | 3 | 19 | 407 |
Locally commissioned pharmacies | 0 | 0 | 3 | 13 |
Total | 20 | 135 | 917 | 10,443 |