Question follow-through · 54500
Pharmacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the Pharmacy First initiative in relation to reducing the workload for GP surgeries.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 22 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 17 Jun 2025 · 26 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the Pharmacy First initiative in relation to reducing the workload for GP surgeries.
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jun 2025
Answer published
National Health Service pharmaceutical services delivered in community pharmacy are subject to evaluations to assess various outcomes such as clinical appropriateness and impacts on other parts of the NHS. The National Institute of Health and Care Researc...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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