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Pharmacy: Standards

Commons · Question 75540 · Tabled 5 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 19 Sep 2025

Question

Asked by Edward Morello

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure continuity of access to prescription medicines in towns where a single operator pharmacy fails to meet its contractual obligations.

Answer

Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 19 Sep 2025

National Health Service pharmaceutical services, the staff who provide them, and the community pharmacies from which they are delivered are regulated. The entire system is laid out in legislation and is subject to assurance and inspection by both integrat...