Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 48245

Prescription Drugs: Electronic Signatures

Tabled: 25 April 2025

Answered: 30 April 2025

Named Day

Question

Ian Roome

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Home Office's letter to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, dated 29 September 2023, what his Department's planned timetable is for the use of electronic signatures f

Answer

Karin Smyth

The Department is unable to confirm a timetable at this stage. Amendments to the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 and Misuse of Drug Regulations 2001 would be required to enable electronic prescribing in named settings, such as secondary care and the heal...

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