Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care what steps he is taking to improve services provided by community pharmacists.
Through our ‘pharmacy first’ approach, we want to unlock the potential of community pharmacy.
Our landmark five-year contractual framework sets out an expanded role for community pharmacy to help people stay well closer to home.
This winter, more than 114,000 people with minor illnesses or medication needs have received same-day consultations with their highly skilled local community pharmacist following a new referral service from NHS 111.