Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 21121

Drugs

Tabled: 18 December 2024

Answered: 6 January 2025

Question

Alex Easton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to review the regulations surrounding the sale of potent medications such as (a) finasteride, (b) dutasteride, and (c) selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors vi

Answer

Karin Smyth

There are no current plans to review the legal avenues of online prescribing and the dispensing of prescription-only medications.Decisions about what medicines to prescribe are made by the doctor or healthcare professional responsible for that part of the...

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