Question follow-through · 99374
General Practitioners: Prescription Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Department has assessed the potential benefits of enabling GPs to issue automatic repeat prescriptions for patients on stable, long-term medication.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 11 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 18 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
11 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Department has assessed the potential benefits of enabling GPs to issue automatic repeat prescriptions for patients on stable, long-term medication.
15 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Dec 2025
Answer published
Responsibility for prescribing, including the issue of repeat prescribing and the duration of prescriptions, rests with the prescriber who has clinical responsibility for that particular aspect of a patient’s care.Electronic repeat dispensing is already i...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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