Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 21501

Pharmacy: Qualifications

Tabled: 19 December 2024
Answered: 8 January 2025

Question

James Naish

Labour — Rushcliffe

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help upskill existing pharmacists to enable them to become independent prescribers, in the context that, from 2026, all newly qualified pharmacists will becom

Answer

Stephen Kinnock
The Government is committed to expanding the role of pharmacies and to better using the skills of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. That includes embedding services such as Pharmacy First and making prescribing part of the services delivered by commun...
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