Hospitals: Pharmacy
Commons · Question 97705 · Tabled 5 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Question
Asked by Helen Morgan
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of NHS hospitals have 24 hours pharmacy dispensing for patients being discharged.
Answer
Answered by Zubir Ahmed, 18 Dec 2025
The Department and NHS England do not hold this information. NHS England’s guidance and toolkits embed medicines planning within discharge processes and emphasise arranging discharge prescriptions and take-home medicines in advance, so they can be suppli...