Question follow-through · 11510
Pharmacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help community pharmacies with (a) funding, (b) workforce and (c) supply of medicines.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 28 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 30 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 8 Nov 2024 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
28 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help community pharmacies with (a) funding, (b) workforce and (c) supply of medicines.
30 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Government is committed to expanding the pharmacy workforce and better utilising the skills of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. That includes making prescribing part of the services delivered by community pharmacists, as we shift care from the ho...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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