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NHS Trusts: Pharmacy

Commons · Question 68616 · Tabled 16 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 4 Aug 2025

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Asked by Freddie van Mierlo

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support NHS Trusts with (a) additional pharmacist staff salaries, (b) the cost of additional monitoring blood tests and (c) additional service delivery costs when new dru

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Answered by Karin Smyth, 4 Aug 2025

The 2025/26 NHS Payment Scheme, published on 4 April 2025, governs transactions between providers and commissioners of secondary healthcare by setting the rules for determining the amount payable for the provision of healthcare services. In short, it defi...