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Pharmacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to implement the Hub and Spoke model for community pharmacy.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
18 Dec 2024
Target answer date
6 Jan 2025
Answer
8 Jan 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 18 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to implement the Hub and Spoke model for community pharmacy.

  2. 6 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 8 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    The Government is working towards introducing legislation to enable hub and spoke dispensing between different legal entities in 2025. This change will be enabled via amendments to both primary and secondary legislation, and is subject to the usual parlia...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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