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Pharmacy: Finance

Commons · Question 80809 · Tabled 10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 22 Oct 2025

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Asked by Edward Morello

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of preventing the NHS Business Services Authority from withholding funding for staff payments where a community pharmacy owes significant m

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Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 22 Oct 2025

Pharmacies are private businesses. The National Health Service Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) pays all pharmacy contractors as set out in the Drug Tariff and based on the activity they declare which is then reconciled at a later stage to ensure that...