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NHS: Contracts

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 33592, tabled on 23 March 2020

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to help ensure that dispensing appliance contractors can deliver essential medical supplies on the same terms as pharmacists during the covid-19 outbreak.

Answered on

27 April 2020

Dispensing Appliance Contractors as part of their essential services have always been required to deliver certain appliances to patients’ homes and are reimbursed for doing so.