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Pharmacy: Community Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to review levels of pharmacy reimbursement funding, in the context of recent trends in levels of closures of local pharmacies.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
9 Oct 2024
Target answer date
14 Oct 2024
Answer
17 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 9 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to review levels of pharmacy reimbursement funding, in the context of recent trends in levels of closures of local pharmacies.

  2. 14 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 17 Oct 2024

    Answer published

    Community Pharmacy funding is kept under regular review. The Department and NHS England consult with the sector on a quarterly basis on reimbursement rates, as well as monthly on concessionary prices. Consultations are held each year about service fee lev...

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