United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 5540
Antidepressants: Prescriptions
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12 September 2024
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8 October 2024 · Answer
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Summary
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.
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12 September 2024
Written question
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.
Source: Commons
8 October 2024
Answer
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...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-09-12/5540
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1729347
- uk · wq-1729347 · source updated 8 October 2024