Antidepressants: Prescriptions
Commons · Question 5540 · 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 publish guidance to GPs on reducing 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...