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Asked by Sadik Al-HassanLabourDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 8 January 2025UIN 21175

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to implement the Hub and Spoke model for community pharmacy.

Answered by Stephen Kinnock

The Government is working towards introducing legislation to enable hub and spoke dispensing between different legal entities in 2025. This change will be enabled via amendments to both primary and secondary legislation, and is subject to the usual parliamentary processes.

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