Pharmacy: Contracts
Commons · Question 75542 · 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 that the criteria for approving operators to take over NHS community pharmacies is sufficiently robust to prevent service failures.
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...