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Pharmacy: Prescriptions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure all new pharmacy graduates from September 2026 are able to independently prescribe.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 4 Jun 2026
Target answer date: 8 Jun 2026
Answer: 10 Jun 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

4 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure all new pharmacy graduates from September 2026 are able to independently prescribe.
8 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Government recently announced a £340 million uplift to community pharmacy funding, a 10% increase, recognising the essential role pharmacies play in supporting patients and the wider National Health Service. As part of this, we are funding the rollout...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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