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819992

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Pharmacy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will introduce a national minor ailments scheme as part of the Pharmacy Integration Fund, and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	122064
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2018 answer text <p>Minor ailment services are commissioned locally by the National Health Service according to need. The purpose of the Pharmacy Integration Fund (PhIF) is to try out and evaluate new ways of integrating pharmacists and community pharmacy into the wider health care system. National commissioning of NHS pharmaceutical services is arranged through the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework. In December 2017, under the PhIF, NHS England commenced a pilot urgent minor illness care pathway of direct referral from NHS 111 to community pharmacy. The outcome of this pilot will inform future commissioning decisions.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 18/01/2018 14:11:29 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

964827

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Pharmacy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to provide funding for community pharmacies.
	tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
	tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
	uin	169227
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>We are continuing to invest in the development of community pharmacy through the Pharmacy Integration Fund (PhIF). This funding is being used to support the integration of pharmacy within the wider healthcare network and encourage a much greater use of community pharmacy as a first port of call for patients. The PhIF includes two pilot schemes, which direct patients seeking an urgent medicines supply or treatment for minor illnesses directly from NHS 111 to community pharmacy. Funding was also made available by NHS England and Public Health England for the Stay Well Pharmacy campaign, encouraging more frequent use of community pharmacies.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to the PhIF, the Quality Payment Scheme, as part of the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework, is incentivising secure digital connectivity to other parts of the health service and the accreditation of community pharmacies as Healthy Living Pharmacies, ensuring that they are well positioned both to respond to national and local developments in out of hospital care and prevention strategies. NHS England has also recently announced investment of £1 million, to pilot the development of local system leadership for pharmacy within Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships and Integrated Care Systems to support the delivery of high quality and sustainable medicines optimisation at scale and deliver best outcomes for patients.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 06/09/2018 10:25:52 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

964828

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Pharmacy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of community pharmacies in keeping NHS patients out of hospital.
	tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
	tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
	uin	169228
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>The Government is encouraging a much greater use of community pharmacies as a first port of call by patients, thereby helping to relieve pressure on general practitioners and hospitals. Recent evaluations of two pilot schemes, which direct patients seeking urgent medicines supply and treatment for minor illnesses from NHS 111 to community pharmacy, have indicated the contribution community pharmacy can make in this respect. Of the patients using the urgent medicines supply scheme, 19.2% would have otherwise used an urgent care centre, such as accident and emergency, and 17.8% of patients using the minor illness referral scheme would have otherwise used an urgent care centre. Due to the success of these schemes so far, an extension to the urgent medicines supply service has been agreed until 31 March 2018, and three further pilots to the minor illness referral service are due to be launched in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 06/09/2018 10:37:17 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

1054684

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Pharmacy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of enabling pharmacists to issue low-strength prescription drugs to reduce the workload for GPs.
	tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
	tabling member printed	David Simpson
	uin	216187
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department has made no assessment of the merits of enabling pharmacists to issue ‘low-strength’ prescription drugs to reduce the workload for general practitioners.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/02/2019 15:50:40 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

825425

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Pharmacy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the General Pharmaceutical Council's enforcement of standards for registered pharmacy premises; whether he has made an assessment of the effect of failure to apply such standards to pharmacy owners rather than only pharmacy professionals on the safety of patients; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
	tabling member printed	Sir Kevin Barron
	uin	123566
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department has not made any assessment of the effectiveness of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) as a regulator of pharmacy professionals and pharmacy premises. The Professional Standards Authority, which in its review of the GPhC’s performance in 2016-2017, found that the GPhC had met all of the standards for good regulation, including all of the standards for fitness to practise.</p><p> </p><p>Standards to safeguard the health, safety and wellbeing of patients and the public are set by the GPhC. It is important to note that there are very different legal frameworks for upholding these standards and how the regulator deals with these for pharmacy premises as compared to pharmacy professionals. 87% of the pharmacies inspected by the GPhC in 2016-17 were meeting all of the standards it sets. Any pharmacy not achieving all of the standards is required by the GPhC to implement an action plan to improve the services they provide. In this period the GPhC agreed 469 action plans with pharmacies to ensure they improved the services they provide, and 99% of them made the necessary improvements so that they were meeting all of the standards. In the same period 140 cases were made affecting an individual pharmacy professional’s registration.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 123567 question first answered 23/01/2018 17:21:47 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	392 label Biography information for Sir Kevin Barron

825426

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Pharmacy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of whether the failure to apply sanctions for standards for pharmacy premises has resulted in a disproportionate number of individual pharmacist registrants who have been held to account for professional standards which may have been impacted by the working environment created by pharmacy owners; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
	tabling member printed	Sir Kevin Barron
	uin	123567
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department has not made any assessment of the effectiveness of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) as a regulator of pharmacy professionals and pharmacy premises. The Professional Standards Authority, which in its review of the GPhC’s performance in 2016-2017, found that the GPhC had met all of the standards for good regulation, including all of the standards for fitness to practise.</p><p> </p><p>Standards to safeguard the health, safety and wellbeing of patients and the public are set by the GPhC. It is important to note that there are very different legal frameworks for upholding these standards and how the regulator deals with these for pharmacy premises as compared to pharmacy professionals. 87% of the pharmacies inspected by the GPhC in 2016-17 were meeting all of the standards it sets. Any pharmacy not achieving all of the standards is required by the GPhC to implement an action plan to improve the services they provide. In this period the GPhC agreed 469 action plans with pharmacies to ensure they improved the services they provide, and 99% of them made the necessary improvements so that they were meeting all of the standards. In the same period 140 cases were made affecting an individual pharmacy professional’s registration.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 123566 question first answered 23/01/2018 17:21:47 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	392 label Biography information for Sir Kevin Barron

836061

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Pharmacy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many improvement notices relating to the standards required of pharmacy premises have been issued by the General Pharmaceutical Council since 2010; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	126416
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) has not issued any improvement notices relating to the standards required of pharmacy premises to date. All pharmacies that are not meeting one or more of the standards are required by the GPhC to complete and implement an improvement action plan. In the year 2016-17, the GPhC reports that it agreed 469 action plans.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 08/02/2018 14:32:32 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

836062

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Pharmacy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the robustness of the vertically integrated community pharmacy network and the medicines distributions chain and the effect on patients of the failure of one part of that network.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	126417
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>No such assessment has been made. A failure in the distribution network that occurred in 2017 due to a computer issue was examined in detail by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency with the company concerned. The lessons learned from that disruption have been shared with all major distributors to increase the resilience of the network.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 08/02/2018 14:34:52 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

836065

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Pharmacy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect on competition and the availability of medicines across the community pharmacy network by the use of sole supplier agreements by branded manufacturers and wholesalers; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	126420
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>The majority of products supplied through restricted wholesale models are branded medicines, for which prices are controlled by the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme. The Department, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and pharmaceutical supply chain stakeholders agreed best practice guidelines for dealing with the supply and distribution of medicines, which set out that where restricted wholesale models are in place, manufacturers should put contingency arrangements in place so that pharmacies can obtain the product directly from the manufacturer if they cannot get it from their wholesaler.</p><p> </p><p>The Office of Fair Trading conducted a market study about medicines distribution in 2007 and concluded that there may be efficiency benefits to direct-to-pharmacy distribution and took the view that manufacturers should be free to choose the distribution method they consider to be most efficient.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 08/02/2018 14:54:30 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

836066

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Pharmacy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect on competition and the availability of medicines across the community pharmacy network of the operation of vertically integrated wholesaler and pharmacy businesses; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	126421
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>No such assessment has been made.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 08/02/2018 14:52:25 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones