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Prescriptions: Fees and Charges

Commons · Question 25579 · Tabled 21 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 24 Jan 2025

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Asked by Vikki Slade

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact on (a) cashflow, (b) income and (c) patient access to medication of practices of receiving re-imbursement monthly rather than quarterly for each

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Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 24 Jan 2025

Contractors are already paid monthly. The full payment timetable for community pharmacy contractors is detailed in Clause 5C Part I of the Drug Tariff, and on the Schedule of Payments that contractors receive each month.In 2021, in recognition of the impr...