Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 5540

Antidepressants: Prescriptions

Tabled: 12 September 2024

Answered: 8 October 2024

Question

Andrew Rosindell

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to publish guidance to GPs on reducing prescriptions for anti-depressant medication.

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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