The Health and Care Act 2022 compels the National Health Service to take action on climate and environmental issues, including by reducing its emissions. The NHS is committed to reducing its environmental impact, whilst delivering the best possible patient care and outcomes, as well as the best possible value for taxpayers.<\/p>
The Climate Change Act 2008 requires all areas of the public sector to reduce their emissions, although the pace of change will differ between different segments of the public sector, depending on cost, feasibility, and innovation. The NHS in England has committed to reaching Net Zero by 2045. To achieve these goals, the NHS will require the support of its suppliers. In 2021, NHS England published the NHS Net Zero Supplier Roadmap, which sets out a series of milestones to support NHS suppliers in aligning with the NHS\u2019s Net Zero ambitions. Further information is available at the following link:<\/p>
Year<\/p><\/td> | Total number of items<\/p><\/td> | Items prescribed by a pharmacist<\/p><\/td> | Percentage of items prescribed by a pharmacist<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2019<\/p><\/td> | 1,118,845,270<\/p><\/td> | 22,089,868<\/p><\/td> | 1.97%<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2020<\/p><\/td> | 1,122,769,640<\/p><\/td> | 30,824,967<\/p><\/td> | 2.75%<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2021<\/p><\/td> | 1,128,633,578<\/p><\/td> | 36,145,631<\/p><\/td> | 3.20%<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2022<\/p><\/td> | 1,162,723,444<\/p><\/td> | 40,701,768<\/p><\/td> | 3.50%<\/p><\/td><\/tr> | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2023<\/p><\/td> | 1,203,435,207<\/p><\/td> | 45,713,123<\/p><\/td> | 3.80%<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> Source: NHS Business Services Authority<\/p> The number of pharmacists that are independent prescribers is increasing. From 2026 all newly qualified pharmacists will be prescribers and we are upskilling the current workforce. NHS England are piloting services with varying models to evaluate how this could work in future clinical services in community pharmacy. In future, prescribing in community pharmacy has the potential to unlock more clinical services in community pharmacy, taking further pressure off general practice.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4117", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Andrea Leadsom"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "South Northamptonshire"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Andrea Leadsom"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2024-05-16", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "previousAnswerVersion" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1715548/answer/previousversion/32812", "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4117", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Andrea Leadsom"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "South Northamptonshire"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Andrea Leadsom"} } , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2024-05-16T11:13:27.173Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "17"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2024-05-02", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Pharmacy: Prescriptions"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the number and proportion of prescriptions that were written by pharmacists in each of the last five years.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4504", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Wes Streeting"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Ilford North"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Wes Streeting"} ], "uin" : "24687"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1715549", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health and Social Care"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1715549/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " There are currently over 34.3 million sign-ups on the NHS App, enabling users to access a range of National Health Services, such as booking and managing general practice (GP) and hospital appointments, ordering repeat prescriptions, and viewing their prospective GP health record. The following table shows the number of repeat prescriptions ordered via the NHS App in each of the last 12 months, as well as the mean and total of repeat prescriptions:<\/p>
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