Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government which medicines can be delivered by homecare medicines services.

Decisions on which medicines can be delivered by a homecare medicines service are made by National Health Service trusts.

NHS England’s Commercial Medicines Unit (CMU) procures medicines on behalf of the four national framework agreements for the provision of homecare medicines services which it manages. As part of the contractual process, a nationally agreed set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) form part of the contractual terms which homecare providers report against. The data set used is attached.

The CMU manages performance through robust contract management, in the form of regular contract review meetings where KPIs are reviewed. Contract review meetings include members of the stakeholder group, including representatives from the NHS trusts.

As part of continued quality assurance and governance processes, all homecare providers are assessed against the same KPIs through the NHS supplier engagement group, which is a subgroup of the National Homecare Medicines Committee.