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Prescription Drugs: Electronic Signatures

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Home Office's letter to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, dated 29 September 2023, what his Department's planned timetable is for the use of electronic signatures f

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 25 Apr 2025
Target answer date: 30 Apr 2025
Answer: 30 Apr 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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25 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Home Office's letter to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, dated 29 September 2023, what his Department's planned timetable is for the use of electronic signatures f
30 Apr 2025
Target answer date
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30 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Department is unable to confirm a timetable at this stage. Amendments to the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 and Misuse of Drug Regulations 2001 would be required to enable electronic prescribing in named settings, such as secondary care and the heal...

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