Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 71114

Pharmacy

Tabled: 29 August 2025

Answered: 12 September 2025

Question

Daisy Cooper

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's proposal for pharmacists to be granted additional powers to make minor substitutions to prescribed medica

Answer

Stephen Kinnock

We will consult on proposals enabling pharmacists working in a community pharmacy to be granted the flexibility to supply an alternative strength or formulation, and hence also quantity, against a prescription written by another prescriber, where it is sa...

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