Pharmacy
Commons · Question 71114 · Tabled 29 Aug 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 12 Sep 2025
Question
Asked by Daisy Cooper
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's proposal for pharmacists to be granted additional powers to make minor substitutions to prescribed medica
Answer
Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 12 Sep 2025
We will consult on proposals enabling pharmacists working in a community pharmacy to be granted the flexibility to supply an alternative strength or formulation, and hence also quantity, against a prescription written by another prescriber, where it is sa...