Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 70187

Prescription Drugs: Women

Tabled: 22 July 2025
Answered: 1 September 2025

Question

Lisa Smart

Liberal DemocratHazel Grove

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of allowing qualified non-medical prescribers to prescribe (a) dihydrocodeine, (b) testosterone and (c) other controlled drugs on wom

Answer

Karin Smyth
The Department supports non-medical professions to use legal mechanisms to prescribe, administer and/or supply medicines to patients, where it is safe and appropriate to do so. Some non-medical healthcare professionals train as independent prescribers, al...

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