General Practitioners: Prescription Drugs
Commons · Question 99374 · Tabled 11 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Question
Asked by Andrew Snowden
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.
Answer
Answered by Zubir Ahmed, 18 Dec 2025
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...