Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:58 pm on 8 November 2022.
Thank you. Well, I mentioned that the new contract will allow further services to be developed, going forward, and you are quite right that the role of community pharmacies has changed significantly over the last 10 years. They do play a vital role for patients. You referred to the number of community pharmacies, as did Sioned Williams, and it is fair to say there has been little change, I think, in the number of community pharmacies in Wales over the last 10 years, but we have seen an increase in the number of pharmacy professionals, and that's both pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, on the register. I think it's increased by over 3 per cent.