Question follow-through · 25579
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact on (a) cashflow, (b) income and (c) patient access to medication of practices of receiving re-imbursement monthly rather than quarterly for each
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 21 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 24 Jan 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact on (a) cashflow, (b) income and (c) patient access to medication of practices of receiving re-imbursement monthly rather than quarterly for each
24 Jan 2025
Target answer date
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24 Jan 2025
Answer published
Contractors are already paid monthly. The full payment timetable for community pharmacy contractors is detailed in Clause 5C Part I of the Drug Tariff, and on the Schedule of Payments that contractors receive each month.In 2021, in recognition of the impr...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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