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Prescriptions

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

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
30 Aug 2024
Target answer date
3 Sept 2024
Answer
9 Sept 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 30 Aug 2024

    Question tabled

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

  2. 3 Sept 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 9 Sept 2024

    Answer published

    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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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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