Over 25% of pharmacy funding spent on 'other priorities'

摘要

More than a quarter of the money earmarked for the pharmacy integration fund (PhlF) was spent elsewhere in the NHS in 2018/2019, the government has admitted. In response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request submitted by The Pharmaceutical Journal, NHS England said that of the ￡40.0m budgeted for the fund in 2018/2019, just ￡28.7m was used for pharmacy initiatives through the scheme. The government said that the remaining E11.3m "was spent on other NHS priorities". The Pharmaceutical Journal requested a line-by-line breakdown of what the fund was spent on, however, the response did not include how the money was spent in other areas of the NHS. NHS England has said it is unable to determine where the ￡11.3m was spent, because it was subsumed into a larger pot of underspend funding and then distributed from there.