Pharmacy: Finance

(asked on 28th March 2017) - View Source
Questioner
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Michael Dugher
(Labour - Barnsley East)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding was allocated by the Government to pharmacies in each year from 1997-98 to 2016-17.

Answered by
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David Mowat
This question was answered on 5th April 2017

The current community pharmacy contractual framework and system of payments dates from 2005/06, with remuneration under those arrangements set out in the table below:

Financial year

Remuneration budget (£ billion)

2005/06

1.8

2006/07

1.9

2007/08

1.9

2008/09

2.2

2009/10

2.5

2010/11

2.5

2011/12

2.5

2012/13

2.5

2013/14

2.8

2014/15

2.8

2015/16

2.8

2016/17

2.7

The budget figures in the table only cover essential and advanced services, as commissioned centrally under the community pharmacy contractual framework. Community pharmacies are also commissioned locally to provide services, originally by primary care trusts and more recently by NHS England, clinical commissioning groups and local authorities. Information on the level of funding received by community pharmacies for those locally commissioned services is not held centrally.

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