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994118

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
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 his Department has made of the effect of the Stay Well Pharmacy campaign on (a) promoting the expertise of pharmacists and (b) reducing preventable emergency admissions to hospital.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	183414
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>The Stay Well Pharmacy campaign is part of a wider behaviour change programme to encourage the public to use their community pharmacy for advice and treatment for minor illness and health advice. This phase targeted parents and carers of young children under the age of five.</p><p> </p><p>The evaluation of the campaign against its objectives showed:</p><p> </p><p>- Awareness: Campaign objective: Achieve 30% unprompted awareness of Stay Well Pharmacy campaign amongst parents of young children under the age of five years by March 2018. The post campaign evaluation found 31% unprompted awareness of pharmacies as an option for minor health concerns by parents of young children under the age of five years.</p><p>- Understanding: Campaign objective: Achieve 30% of parents of young children under the age of five years agreeing they would use pharmacist services when they have symptoms of the minor illnesses mentioned by March 2018. The post campaign evaluation found 49% achievement of this campaign objective.</p><p>- Behavioural Intentions: Campaign objective: Achieve 35% of parents of young children under the age of five years claiming they would seek advice from community pharmacists for minor illnesses that can be effectively managed in pharmacy by March 2018. The post campaign evaluation found 26% achievement of this campaign objective.</p><p> </p><p>The previous Stay Well This Winter campaign aimed at encouraging the 65+ and working age people with long term health conditions to seek advice from the local community pharmacy at the first signs of a winter illness (including coughs and colds) to get advice on managing the condition. This resulted in an additional 1.6 million visits to pharmacy. Modelling the impact of the campaign suggests it resulted in:</p><p> </p><p>- 13,856 fewer people attending, with 6,016 fewer being admitted, to accident and emergency (A&amp;E) during the three months the campaign aired: and</p><p>- 5,747 fewer people being admitted to A&amp;E during the three months after the campaign aired.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 01/11/2018 16:48:06 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

969191

registered interest
date	06/09/2018
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 estimate he has made of the amount of time pharmacists in the community spend on providing direct clinical services excluding the dispensing of medicines.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	171449
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The Department has not made an assessment.</p><p>All pharmacies undertaking National Health Service pharmaceutical services are required to provide essential services, which include services in addition to dispensing medicines, such as self-care advice and supporting healthy lifestyles. They may also provide advanced services such as the new medicine service and seasonal flu vaccination. The time community pharmacies in practice spend on these individual services will vary between pharmacies and has not been assessed by the Department.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 11/09/2018 15:36:57 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

969192

registered interest
date	06/09/2018
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 the projected costs are for the Pharmacy Access Scheme in each quarter up to March 2019.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	171450
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>From 1 April this year interim arrangements for the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework were agreed with the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee. These run until 31 March 2019. Under these arrangements Pharmacy Access Scheme payments remain the same as they were in 2017/18 at approximately £6.2 million per quarter.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 11/09/2018 15:33:02 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

969193

registered interest
date	06/09/2018
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 the total number of (a) internet and (b) high street community pharmacies has been in each year since 2007-08 in (i) total and (ii) each local authority area.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	171451
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>This information is not available in the format requested. The attached document contains information on &quot;bricks and mortar&quot; pharmacies, which encompasses all community pharmacies which can provide essential National Health Service pharmaceutical services face-to-face at their physical location; and distance selling pharmacies that provide essential NHS pharmaceutical services online or over the phone. Figures are only available by region rather than local authority.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 11/09/2018 15:20:42 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine attachment 1 file name PQ171451 tables pharmacies.docx title PQ171451 pharmacies
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

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

922366

registered interest
date	12/06/2018
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 pharmacies there have been in England in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	152637
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Number of community pharmacies in England for 2007/08 to 2016/17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Number of community pharmacies</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007/08</p></td><td><p>10,312</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008/09</p></td><td><p>10,506</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>10,691</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>10,951</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>11,236</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>11,495</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>11,647</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>11,674</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>11,688</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>11,699</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 15/06/2018 14:58:56 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

914712

registered interest
date	01/06/2018
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, with reference to the Written Statement of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health of 20 October 2016, Official Report, column 971, for what reason the Government has not encouraged the national roll-out of the pharmacy minor ailments scheme with clinical commissioning groups.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	148839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>A national minor illness scheme is in development. A pilot digital minor illness referral service (DMIRS), direct from NHS 111 to community pharmacy, commenced in the North East last year. Three further DMIRS pilots, supported by the Pharmacy Integration Fund, are due to be launched by early autumn 2018, in Devon, London (in a phased approach), and East Midlands. The areas will be adopting the same model used in the North East with some minor adaptations dependent on the local NHS 111 case mix. An evaluation will inform any next steps for the project.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 11/06/2018 14:51:52 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

850876

registered interest
date	27/02/2018
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 plans his Department has to use community pharmacies to help support people with long term conditions to manage their conditions.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	130096
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises the important contribution that community pharmacies make to the National Health Service. We are encouraging a much greater use of community pharmacies as a first port of call in mass media campaigns such at the current Stay Well pharmacy campaign and by better integration with the rest of the NHS to help take pressure off general practitioners (GPs) and hospitals.</p><p> </p><p>In the North East we are currently piloting referrals direct from NHS 111 to community pharmacy and early results are promising. We are also extending the pilot supply of urgent medicines. This has also demonstrated how community pharmacy can relieve pressure on GP and Out of Hours services. Between December 2016 and December 2017 the pilot NHS Urgent Medicines Supply Advanced Service saved 38,900 GP appointments. We will continue to build on this evidence based approach.</p><p> </p><p>The Quality Payment scheme introduced by this Government in 2017/18 has encouraged an increase in community pharmacies that are accredited as Healthy Living Pharmacies and there are now over 9,000 embedded in the community, supporting people both with and without long term health conditions to stay well. In addition community pharmacists play an important role through the New Medicines Service and in the advice they provide alongside their dispensing activity in ensuring everyone knows how to take their medicines most effectively.</p><p> </p><p>Pharmacy will continue to be a trusted partner in delivering a world class National Health Service and the Government is committed to working with community pharmacy to help make this a reality.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 130097 130098 question first answered 07/03/2018 16:55:26 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

850877

registered interest
date	27/02/2018
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 plans his Department has for greater use of community pharmacies to support (a) A&E departments and (b) general practices.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	130097
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises the important contribution that community pharmacies make to the National Health Service. We are encouraging a much greater use of community pharmacies as a first port of call in mass media campaigns such at the current Stay Well pharmacy campaign and by better integration with the rest of the NHS to help take pressure off general practitioners (GPs) and hospitals.</p><p> </p><p>In the North East we are currently piloting referrals direct from NHS 111 to community pharmacy and early results are promising. We are also extending the pilot supply of urgent medicines. This has also demonstrated how community pharmacy can relieve pressure on GP and Out of Hours services. Between December 2016 and December 2017 the pilot NHS Urgent Medicines Supply Advanced Service saved 38,900 GP appointments. We will continue to build on this evidence based approach.</p><p> </p><p>The Quality Payment scheme introduced by this Government in 2017/18 has encouraged an increase in community pharmacies that are accredited as Healthy Living Pharmacies and there are now over 9,000 embedded in the community, supporting people both with and without long term health conditions to stay well. In addition community pharmacists play an important role through the New Medicines Service and in the advice they provide alongside their dispensing activity in ensuring everyone knows how to take their medicines most effectively.</p><p> </p><p>Pharmacy will continue to be a trusted partner in delivering a world class National Health Service and the Government is committed to working with community pharmacy to help make this a reality.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 130096 130098 question first answered 07/03/2018 16:55:26 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock