Prescriptions
Commons · Question 8991 · Tabled 14 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 21 Oct 2024
Question
Asked by Rebecca Smith
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending prescribing rights to (a) dieticians, (b) occupational therapists, (c) prosthetists and orthotists, (d) diagnostic rad
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 21 Oct 2024
The Department works with NHS England to ensure that the prescribing responsibilities for all Allied Health Professionals are regularly reviewed and updated. Where it is deemed clinically appropriate and necessary to extend prescribing responsibilities to...