Question follow-through · 27070
ADHD: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to issue guidance to ensure that people diagnosed with ADHD through private healthcare can access NHS prescriptions without additional assessment.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 28 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 18 Feb 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
28 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to issue guidance to ensure that people diagnosed with ADHD through private healthcare can access NHS prescriptions without additional assessment.
30 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Feb 2025
Answer published
General practitioners (GPs) are independent contractors that provide services within the National Health Service. The General Medical Council (GMC) has issued guidance on “Good practice in proposing, prescribing, providing and managing medicines and devic...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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