Question follow-through · 69974

Prescriptions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with the Royal College of General Practice on reducing overprescribing.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 22 Jul 2025
Target answer date: 1 Sept 2025
Answer: 1 Sept 2025 · 41 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

22 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with the Royal College of General Practice on reducing overprescribing.
1 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Sept 2025
Answer published
My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has not had any discussions with these organisations related to reducing overprescribing.The National Health Service and partner organisations are responding to the challenge of overpres...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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