Written question asked by Lord Lansley (Conservative) on Wednesday, 12 December 2007, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 17 December 2007. It was answered by Baroness Primarolo (Labour) on Wednesday, 9 January 2008 on behalf of the Department of Health.
Nicotine Patches
- Question
- To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the evidential basis is for the statement on page 37 of his Department's Cancer Reform Strategy, that some primary care trusts have enabled pharmacists to supply nicotine replacement therapy through (a) voucher schemes and (b) patient group directions; and if he will list the primary care trusts which have done so.
- Answer
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In 2005-06, 2,522 community pharmacies in England were locally commissioned by the primary care trusts (PCTs) in the following table to provide national health service stop smoking services. We are aware that, as part of these services, some PCTs have enabled pharmacists to supply nicotine replacement therapy to patients and the public through voucher schemes and patient group directions but information on which PCTs have done so is not collected centrally.PCTs contracting with community pharmacies to provide stop smoking services at 31 March 2007"Ashton, Leigh and Wigan""Barnsley""Bath and North East Somerset""Bedfordshire""Berkshire East Teaching""Berkshire West""Bexley Care Trust""Birmingham East and North""Blackburn with Darwen Teaching""Blackpool""Bournemouth and Poole Teaching""Brighton and Hove City Teaching""Bristol Teaching""Bromley""Bury""Camden""Central Lancashire""City and Hackney Teaching""Cornwall and Isles of Scilly""Croydon""Derby City""Derbyshire County""Devon""Doncaster""Dorset""Dudley""Ealing""East and North Hertfordshire""East Sussex Downs and Weald""Eastern and Coastal Kent Teaching""Enfield""Great Yarmouth and Waveney Teaching""Halton and St. Helens""Hammersmith and Fulham""Hampshire""Haringey Teaching""Harrow""Hastings and Rother""Heart of Birmingham Teaching""Herefordshire""Hillingdon""Hounslow""Hull Teaching""Isle of Wight Healthcare""Islington""Kensington and Chelsea""Kingston""Knowsley""Lambeth""Leeds""Leicester City Teaching""Lewisham""Lincolnshire Teaching""Liverpool""Luton Teaching""Manchester""Medway Teaching""Mid Essex""Middlesbrough""Milton Keynes""Newcastle""Newham""North Somerset""North Staffordshire""North Tyneside""North Yorkshire and York""Northamptonshire Teaching""Northumberland Care Trust""Nottingham City""Nottinghamshire County Teaching""Oldham""Redcar and Cleveland""Richmond and Twickenham""Rochdale, Heywood and Middleton""Rotherham""Salford Teaching""Sandwell""Sefton""Sheffield""Shropshire County""South Birmingham""South East Essex""South Staffordshire""South West Essex Teaching""Southwark""Stockport""Stoke on Trent Teaching""Suffolk""Sunderland Teaching""Surrey""Sutton and Merton""Swindon""Tameside and Glossop""Telford and Wrekin""Tower Hamlets""Trafford""Walsall Teaching""Wandsworth""Warrington""Warwickshire""West Essex""West Hertfordshire""West Kent""West Sussex Teaching""Westminster""Wiltshire""Wirral""Wolverhampton City.""Source:""The Information Centre for health and social care"
Secondary information
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- Written question
- Reference
- 470 c615-7W; 174767
- Session
- 2007-08
- Subjects
- Nicotine replacement therapy
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