Prescriptions
Commons · Question 2902 · Tabled 30 Aug 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 9 Sep 2024
Question
Asked by Sarah Champion
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce overprescribing.
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 9 Sep 2024
Overprescribing can be addressed by taking a shared decision making approach and optimising a person's medicines; ensuring that patients are prescribed the right medicines, at the right time, in the right doses. The National Health Service is responding t...