Question follow-through · 58806
Prescriptions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of providing funding for dispensing GPs to offer electronic prescribing.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 10 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jun 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of providing funding for dispensing GPs to offer electronic prescribing.
16 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jun 2025
Answer published
Following its launch in 2005, the Electronic Prescribing Service (EPS) is now used in more than 96% of general practices (GPs). While GP IT services and funding do not cover dispensing services provided by dispensing doctors, EPS is used in prescribing an...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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