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NHS: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the retained margin element of the NHS drug tariff.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
6 Jan 2025
Target answer date
8 Jan 2025
Answer
13 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 6 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the retained margin element of the NHS drug tariff.

  2. 8 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 13 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    The adequacy of medicine margin that pharmacies are allowed to retain, with medicine margin being the difference between how much pharmacies are reimbursed and how much pharmacies were charged by suppliers, is currently being considered as part of the wid...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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