| Heading: |
Pharmacy: Fees and Charges |
| Question ID: |
1808943 |
| UIN: |
57132 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-03 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5312 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Sadik Al-Hassan
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Sadik Al-Hassan
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to prevent spoke pharmacies from charging patients for additional services which are delivered by an outsourced hub partner. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-09 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4359 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Stephen Kinnock
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| Answering Member handle: |
skinnock
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@skinnock
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| Answer text: |
For medicines prescribed as part of National Health Service primary care, patients either pay the standard NHS prescription charge or receive their prescriptions free of charge, depending on eligibility. Pharmacies are responsible for collecting these cha... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |