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Pharmacy: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will made an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the length of funding periods of pharmacies.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
27 Mar 2025
Target answer date
1 Apr 2025
Answer
2 Apr 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 27 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will made an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the length of funding periods of pharmacies.

  2. 1 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 2 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    We have now concluded the consultation on funding for 2024/25 and 2025/26, and have agreed with Community Pharmacy England to increase the community pharmacy contractual framework to £3.073 billion. This deal represents the largest uplift in funding of an...

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