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Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Home Office

Apr. 29 2024

Source Page: Rwanda: country policy and information notes
Document: (PDF)

Found: Rwanda: country policy and information notes

Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Home Office

Apr. 29 2024

Source Page: Rwanda: country policy and information notes
Document: (PDF)

Found: Rwanda: country policy and information notes

Non-Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

Apr. 29 2024

Source Page: Finasteride: review of safety data and expert advice on management of risks
Document: (PDF)

Found: Finasteride: review of safety data and expert advice on management of risks

Written Question
Pharmacy: Finance
Monday 29th April 2024

Asked by: Taiwo Owatemi (Labour - Coventry North West)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of increasing funding for community pharmacies on funding for secondary care.

Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

On 31 December 2023, there were 22 pharmacies in Coventry North West constituency, including one distance selling pharmacy. Between 31 December 2019 and 31 December 2023, two pharmacies closed in Coventry North West and no new pharmacies opened. However, access to pharmaceutical services remains good, with 97% of the population of Coventry North West living within a 20-minute walk from a pharmacy. This exceeds the national average of 80%. Residents of Coventry North West can also access services from distance selling pharmacies that operate nationally.

It is the role of local authorities in England to undertake pharmaceutical needs assessments for their areas, every three years, to ensure provision continues to meet their population’s needs. Integrated care boards (ICBs) have regard to those assessments when commissioning services and where a pharmacy closure impacts on the access to services, a new contractor can apply to open a pharmacy in the area.

Services within the National Health Service delivered in community pharmacy can have a positive impact on secondary care. For example, the Discharge Medicines Service and the New Medicine Service provide patients with extra support for medicines preventing (re)hospitalisation. Urgent and emergency care settings can also refer patients to community pharmacies for a minor illness consultation or an urgent medicine supply, taking the pressure off secondary care. Increasing the impact of these services, which are already commissioned in community pharmacies, will require continued embedding of referral in secondary care pathways.

Non-Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Government Actuary's Department

Apr. 26 2024

Source Page: 2020 Valuation - Civil Service Pension Scheme
Document: (PDF)

Found: These assessments are indicative, rather than precise.

Non-Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Government Actuary's Department

Apr. 26 2024

Source Page: 2020 Valuation - Police Pension Schemes (Scotland)
Document: (PDF)

Found: These assessments are indicative, rather than precise.

Select Committee
Leonard Cheshire
 DYE0055 - Disability employment

Written Evidence Apr. 26 2024

Inquiry: Disability employment
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Work and Pensions Committee (Department: Department for Work and Pensions)

Found: in full-time education and have an education health and care plan.

Select Committee
Local Government Association
 DYE0052 - Disability employment

Written Evidence Apr. 26 2024

Inquiry: Disability employment
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Work and Pensions Committee (Department: Department for Work and Pensions)

Found: Mental health is interwoven with other agendas – including housing, public health, social care

Select Committee
Parkinson's UK
 DYE0050 - Disability employment

Written Evidence Apr. 26 2024

Inquiry: Disability employment
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Work and Pensions Committee (Department: Department for Work and Pensions)

Found: interpretation of pre-employment or pre-placement health assessments, reasonable adjustments and

Select Committee
Department for Work and Pensions
 DYE0042 - Disability employment

Written Evidence Apr. 26 2024

Inquiry: Disability employment
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Work and Pensions Committee (Department: Department for Work and Pensions)

Found: DYE0042 - Disability employment Department for Work and Pensions Written Evidence