Question follow-through · 16698
General Practitioners: Prescriptions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the timeframe GPs have to authorise repeat prescriptions.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 27 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 29 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 3 Dec 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the timeframe GPs have to authorise repeat prescriptions.
29 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Dec 2024
Answer published
There is no set timeframe for which general practitioners (GPs) must authorise repeat prescriptions. However, GPs should ensure that their patients know when to request the next batch of their repeat prescriptions, to allow sufficient time for it to be au...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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