Antidepressants: Prescriptions
Commons · Question 5539 · Tabled 12 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 8 Oct 2024
Question
Asked by Andrew Rosindell
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to reduce prescriptions for anti-depressant medication.
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 8 Oct 2024
Overprescribing can be addressed by taking a shared decision-making approach and optimising a person's medicines, and by ensuring that patients are prescribed the right medicines at the right time, in the right doses.NHS England has published Optimising p...