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Drugs: Waste Management

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will ask NHS England to monitor the (a) uptake of locally implemented waste reduction schemes and (b) impact of such schemes on levels of unused medicines.

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: 10 Sept 2024 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

30 Aug 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will ask NHS England to monitor the (a) uptake of locally implemented waste reduction schemes and (b) impact of such schemes on levels of unused medicines.
3 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Sept 2024
Answer published
NHS England is leading a programme on medicine optimisation which aims to help patients to improve outcomes and safety, take medicines as intended, avoid taking unnecessary medicines, and reduce wastage. Community pharmacies also offer the New Medicines S...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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