Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 59462

Prescriptions

Tabled: 12 June 2025
Answered: 23 June 2025

Question

Dr Luke Evans

ConservativeHinckley and Bosworth

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had recent discussions with NICE on reducing overprescribing.

Answer

Karin Smyth
The Department has had no recent discussions with either the Royal Pharmaceutical Society or the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence on reducing overprescribing.