Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 16371

Pharmacy: Staff

Tabled: 26 November 2024
Answered: 3 December 2024

Question

Rebecca Paul

ConservativeReigate

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will introduce regulations to ensure that a pharmacist is always present in an open pharmacy to facilitate the sale of pharmacy medicines,

Answer

Stephen Kinnock
Pharmacy regulations already require that a registered pharmacy business can only operate and be open to the public, to sell or supply prescription only medicines or pharmacy medicines, when a responsible pharmacist, the pharmacist legally responsible for...

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