Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what awards have been made under the Pharmacy Integration Fund in each year of its operation.
The Pharmacy Integration Fund (PhIF) was announced in December 2015, with an engagement exercise that ran until the end of March 2016 to identify priority areas for investment. For the initial financial year 2016/17, up to £2 million was available. From 2017/18 onwards, up to £40 million per year has been available for investment. The PhIF does not make ‘awards’, but rather invests in the development and integration of clinical pharmacy. Key areas of investment over the last four years are listed in the attached table.