Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 80809

Pharmacy: Finance

Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 22 October 2025

Question

Edward Morello

Liberal DemocratWest Dorset

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of preventing the NHS Business Services Authority from withholding funding for staff payments where a community pharmacy owes significant m

Answer

Stephen Kinnock
Pharmacies are private businesses. The National Health Service Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) pays all pharmacy contractors as set out in the Drug Tariff and based on the activity they declare which is then reconciled at a later stage to ensure that...

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