Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 47807

Prescription Drugs: Costs

Tabled: 24 April 2025
Answered: 6 May 2025

Question

Dr Luke Evans

Conservative — Hinckley and Bosworth

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of overprescribing.

Answer

Karin Smyth
The National Health Service and its partner organisations are responding to the challenge of overprescribing, as set out in the Government’s review of overprescribing, Good for you, good for us, good for everybody, in September 2021. There are currently n...
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