Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much on average pharmacists are paid for each influenza jab administered.
General practitioners are paid £9.80 for each dose of influenza vaccine that they administer to eligible patients under the General Medical Services contract 2016/17.
Participating pharmacists are paid a total of £9.14 for each dose of the influenza vaccine that they administer to eligible patients under the national Influenza Adult Vaccination Service delivered through the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework for 2016/17.