Question follow-through · 21916
Pharmacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a hub and spoke model to community pharmacy.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 3 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 10 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
3 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a hub and spoke model to community pharmacy.
7 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Government is working towards introducing legislation to enable hub and spoke dispensing between different legal entities this year. This change will be enabled via amendments to both primary and secondary legislation and is subject to the usual parli...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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