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Pharmacy: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the criteria for approving operators to take over NHS community pharmacies is sufficiently robust to prevent service failures.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
5 Sept 2025
Target answer date
9 Sept 2025
Answer
19 Sept 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 5 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the criteria for approving operators to take over NHS community pharmacies is sufficiently robust to prevent service failures.

  2. 9 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 19 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    National Health Service pharmaceutical services, the staff who provide them, and the community pharmacies from which they are delivered are regulated. The entire system is laid out in legislation and is subject to assurance and inspection by both integrat...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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