Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 2902

Prescriptions

Tabled: 30 August 2024

Answered: 9 September 2024

Question

Sarah Champion

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce overprescribing.

Answer

Karin Smyth

Overprescribing can be addressed by taking a shared decision making approach and optimising a person's medicines; ensuring that patients are prescribed the right medicines, at the right time, in the right doses. The National Health Service is responding t...

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