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1244364

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date	19/10/2020
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: Finance
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 make an assessment of the adequacy of funding for community pharmacies.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	105287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2020 answer text <p>Plans for additional funding, for costs incurred during the peak of the pandemic, are being actively discussed with the sector. We will also carefully consider other representations on how we can further support community pharmacy so they can continue to deliver.</p><p>The Government has put in place an unprecedented financial package during the COVID-19 pandemic, providing support to all businesses, including community pharmacies. We have also made £370 million in advance payments to alleviate cash flow pressures and have provided extra funding to cover the costs of Bank Holiday opening, a new medicine delivery service for shielded patients, and measures taken by community pharmacy to support social distancing. For June to September 2020, there has also been an increase of £15 million per month, a total of £60 million, to reimbursement prices of the most commonly prescribed generic medicines.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 23/10/2020 09:42:06 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill previous answer version 56510 answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1238426

registered interest
date	28/09/2020
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	Influenza: Vaccination
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 availability of the 2020 flu vaccine.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	95982
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2020 answer text <p>We have sufficient vaccine for up to 30 million people to be vaccinated in England this winter.</p><p>General practitioners and pharmacists are directly responsible for ordering flu vaccine from suppliers which are used to deliver the national flu programme to adults. In addition, the Department has procured additional doses of seasonal flu vaccine to ensure more flu vaccines are available this winter.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 23/10/2020 12:52:41 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill previous answer version 51424 answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1238427

registered interest
date	28/09/2020
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	Influenza: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support he is giving to GPs and community pharmacies to ensure they have adequate stocks of the 2020 flu vaccine.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	95983
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2020 answer text <p>General practitioners (GPs) and pharmacists are directly responsible for ordering flu vaccine from suppliers which are used to deliver the national flu programme to adults. In addition, the Department has procured additional flu vaccine that will be available from November in addition to the supplies already ordered by providers.</p><p>Guidance on how GPs and community pharmacies can access the additional flu vaccine will be published shortly.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 23/10/2020 13:01:09 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill previous answer version 51425 answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1238430

registered interest
date	28/09/2020
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	Influenza: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support (a) GP surgeries and (b) community pharmacies to meet increased demand for the winter flu vaccine.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	95984
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2020 answer text <p>NHS England and NHS Improvement are working with local areas to ensure that local providers have the support to meet increased demand for the flu vaccination this winter. New models of delivery have been shared with regional commissioning teams to encourage innovative thinking such as mobile, and mass vaccination models to allow for increases in uptake safely whilst observing social distancing and personal protective equipment requirements.</p><p>Alongside this, additional trained workforce is being made available to local providers to help them vaccinate more eligible people.</p><p>Additional flu vaccine has been purchased by the Department to ensure more flu vaccines are available this winter.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 23/10/2020 13:03:27 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill previous answer version 51426 answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1238432

registered interest
date	28/09/2020
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	Influenza: Vaccination
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 (a) GP surgeries and (b) community pharmacies in Birmingham have reported a shortage of the 2020 flu vaccine.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	95985
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2020 answer text <p>NHS England and NHS Improvement – Midlands has not received any direct report on flu vaccine shortages from general practitioner (GP) practices and community pharmacies in the Birmingham and Solihull Sustainability and Transformation Partnership.</p><p>GPs and pharmacists are directly responsible for ordering flu vaccine from suppliers which are used to deliver the national flu programme to adults. In addition, the Department has procured additional flu vaccine that will be available from November in addition to the supplies already ordered by providers.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 23/10/2020 13:16:40 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill previous answer version 51427 answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe