Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 5544

Antidepressants

Tabled: 12 September 2024
Answered: 8 October 2024

Question

Andrew Rosindell

Reform UK — Romford

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish guidance for (a) GPs and (b) psychiatrists on (i) safely deprescribing and (ii) providing alternative medications for patients on antidepressant medications.

Answer

Karin Smyth
Overprescribing can be addressed by taking a shared decision-making approach and optimising a person's medicines, and by ensuring that patients are prescribed the right medicines at the right time, in the right doses.NHS England has published Optimising p...
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