Question follow-through · 1240
Prescriptions: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department held discussions with stakeholders prior to NHS England's decision to cease central funding for the EMIS Web Dispensing Module from 1 April 2026.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 14 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 May 2026
- Answer
- 26 May 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
14 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department held discussions with stakeholders prior to NHS England's decision to cease central funding for the EMIS Web Dispensing Module from 1 April 2026.
18 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 May 2026
Answer published
NHS England spends approximately £750,000 annually funding the EMIS Web dispensing module. NHS England will work with relevant bodies, including the Department, to develop a longer-term approach regarding the way dispensing is funded, in advance of the ex...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Infant Mortality: Fathers
18 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with [i] the NHS and [ii] baby loss organisations about the [a] impact of baby loss on fathers and [b] support services needed to support those fathers.
Hospices: Children and Young People
19 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 22 April 2026 to Question 125262, for what reason the Department is not yet in a position to share those individual allocations publicly.
Hospices: Children and Young People
19 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 22 April 2026 to Question 125262, what his planned timetable is for publishing the amount that each children and young people's hospice will receive in the 2026-27 f
General Practitioners
19 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the Royal College of General Practitioners' report entitled Tackling the GP workload crisis, published in April 2026.
Steroid Drugs: Young People
19 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he will discuss with [i] UKAD and [ii] other relevant bodies about the use of [i] IPEDs and [ii] SARMS amongst young people in the context of the aims of the Men's Health Strategy.
Steroid Drugs: Young People
19 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has he made about the reasons for the use of [i] IPEDs and [ii] SARMs amongst young people.
Steroid Drugs: Young People
19 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he will have conversations with colleagues in the [i] Department for Culture and Media and Sport and [ii] Department for Science and Technology about the impact of social media content on t
Health Services: Men
29 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress has been made on implementing the Men’s Health Strategy.
Suicide: Men
29 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that primary care services identify and support men at risk of suicide.
Suicide: Men
29 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure GPs are adequately trained and equipped to identify and respond to men at risk of suicide.
Suicide: Men
29 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether steps have been taken to ensure neighbourhood health delivers effective suicide prevention support for middle aged men.
NHS: Drugs
2 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to provide patients with continuity of access to compassionate medicines following the withdrawal by some pharmaceutical companies of early access scheme medicines.