{"value":{"id":1675615,"askingMemberId":4444,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2023-12-05T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2023-12-11T00:00:00","uin":"5349","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of prescriptions were written by pharmacists in the financial year 2022-23.","answeringBodyId":17,"answeringBodyName":"Department of Health and Social Care","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":true,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4117,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2024-01-15T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The National Health Service does not currently commission prescribing services from community pharmacists but pharmacists working in other NHS settings, including general practices, can prescribe on the NHS.</p><p>The following table shows the total number of items prescribed in England and the number of items prescribed by pharmacists in 2022:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Total items prescribed in England</p></td><td><p>Items prescribed by pharmacists</p></td><td><p>Percentage of total items prescribed by pharmacists</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>1,162,723,444</p></td><td><p>40,701,768</p></td><td><p>3.50</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Business Services Authority</p><p>We are working on increasing the number of pharmacist prescribers and from 2026 all newly graduated pharmacists will have a prescribing qualification. This year NHS England will pilot how NHS prescribing could work in community pharmacy. Pharmacists in other setting including general practice and hospital already prescribe.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":"2023-12-11T00:00:00","attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Pharmacy: Prescriptions","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1675615","method":"GET"}]}