Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 13769

Skin Diseases: Steroid Drugs

Tabled: 12 November 2024
Answered: 19 November 2024

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the prolonged use of steroid creams.

Answer

Karin Smyth
The decision to prescribe a particular drug is a clinical one, and should be based on the patient’s medical needs. Decisions about what medicines to prescribe are made by the doctor or healthcare professional responsible for that part of the patient’s car...
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