Question follow-through · 4802
Prescriptions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress the NHS England and College of Operating Department Practitioners working group has made on prescribing rights.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 9 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 18 Sept 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress the NHS England and College of Operating Department Practitioners working group has made on prescribing rights.
11 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Sept 2024
Answer published
In late 2020, NHS England launched a series of public consultations seeking views on proposals to amend the responsibilities for the prescribing, supply, and administration of medicines for the following professionals:dental hygienists and dental therapis...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Mental Health Services: Rural Areas
5 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the provision of mental health services in rural areas.