Question follow-through · 23165

Drugs and Pharmacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of (a) trends in the level of costs of medicines and (b) potential closures of community pharmacies.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 10 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 14 Jan 2025
Answer: 20 Jan 2025 · 10 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

10 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of (a) trends in the level of costs of medicines and (b) potential closures of community pharmacies.
14 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Jan 2025
Answer published
The NHS Business Services Authority publishes the prescribing costs in hospitals and the community for England, which are available at the following link:www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/statistical-collections/prescribing-costs-hospitals-and-community-englandThe Depart...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Palliative Care: Training

15 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of training given to palliative care specialists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Palliative Care: Telephone Services

15 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of a designated out of hours palliative care advice line in every region.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Palliative Care: Finance

15 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential benefits of allocating palliative care funding through a long-term centrally managed, ringfenced grant.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Social Prescribing

20 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of social prescribing to treat medical conditions.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

NHS: Pay

20 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he expects the next round of discussions between NHS pay review bodies and health unions.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Cervical Cancer

21 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help prevent cervical cancer.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Cervical Cancer: Screening

21 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help increase the number of cervical cancer screenings.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Heart Diseases: Young People

29 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve detection of undiagnosed heart conditions in young people.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Heart Diseases: Young People

29 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of expanding access to diagnostic (a) checks and (b) screenings to improve detection of undiagnosed heart conditions in young people.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Cardiovascular Diseases: Young People

29 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase awareness of (a) cardiac health and (b) physical activity increasing risk of strokes in young people in (i) schools, (ii) universities and (iii) sports facilitie

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