AQW 43037/22-27

Ms Kate Nicholl
Alliance Party
South Belfast

Tabled Date: 24/03/2026
Answered On Date: 13/04/2026
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Health whether any assessment has been made of the salary of a community pharmacist.

Answer:

The Department has no role in determining or assessing the salaries of community pharmacists in Northern Ireland.

Community Pharmacies are privately owned businesses and while they operate under a contractual framework with the Health and Social Care (HSC) to provide services and dispense medicines, community pharmacy owners, pharmacists and other support staff working for them are not direct Health and Social Care (HSC) employees.

Community pharmacist salaries in Northern Ireland are determined by individual private employers.