Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 8991

Prescriptions

Tabled: 14 October 2024
Answered: 21 October 2024

Question

Rebecca Smith

ConservativeSouth West Devon

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending prescribing rights to (a) dieticians, (b) occupational therapists, (c) prosthetists and orthotists, (d) diagnostic rad

Answer

Karin Smyth
The Department works with NHS England to ensure that the prescribing responsibilities for all Allied Health Professionals are regularly reviewed and updated. Where it is deemed clinically appropriate and necessary to extend prescribing responsibilities to...

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