United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 89696
Prescription Drugs
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17 November 2022
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22 November 2022 · Answer
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 7 November 2022 to Question 75762 on Prescription Drugs, with reference to the estimated £300 million of NHS prescribed medicines wasted each year as detailed in the NHS r
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17 November 2022
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 7 November 2022 to Question 75762 on Prescription Drugs, with reference to the estimated £300 million of NHS prescribed medicines wasted each year as detailed in the NHS r
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22 November 2022
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The estimated wastage derives from the 2010 report ‘Evaluation of the scale, causes and costs of waste medicines’ by the York Health Economics Consortium and the School of Pharmacy, University of London. The Department has no plans to commission a revised...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-11-17/89696
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1543201
- uk · wq-1543201 · source updated 22 November 2022