Debate contribution: Pharmacists: Pay Disparities
Debate contribution by Mr Mike Nesbitt on .
- MLA
- Mr Mike Nesbitt
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 2 June 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Pharmacists: Pay Disparities
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5584382
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Text
GP federations are not health and social care bodies. Pharmacists in the GP federations are employed by the GP federations, so it is up to the federations to determine their pay and conditions. We have no locus there, but we did provide an uplift for staff costs to federations in respect of their pharmacists on the basis of the pay award agreed by the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration. We have done that for last year and are committed to doing it for this year, if and when we get a Budget.
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