PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Pharmacy: Prescriptions (5 December 2023)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of pharmacists have trained to become independent prescribers in each of the last three years.
Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)
Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)
Answer
The following table shows the number of pharmacists with independent prescribing annotations on the General Pharmaceutical Council’s (GPhC) Register in England:
| Number of independent prescribers (England) | Proportion of GPhC register (England) |
October 2023 | 14,280 | 26.3% |
October 2022 | 11,984 | 22.7% |
October 2021 | 9,884 | 19.6% |
Answered by:
Andrea Leadsom (Conservative)
18 December 2023
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