Beyond Pills APPG

First Registered: 24/01/2024 • Last updated on: 02/01/2025

To move UK healthcare beyond an over-reliance on pills by combining social prescribing, lifestyle medicine, psychosocial interventions and safe deprescribing. As well as reducing unnecessary and inappropriate prescribing, this integrated approach will improve outcomes and reduce health inequalities

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4 Current APPG Officers
Simon Opher Portrait
Simon Opher
Chair & Registered Contact
Labour - Stroud
Joined: 2nd January 2025
4 APPG Memberships
Creative Health , Health , Net Zero , Opera
Danny Kruger Portrait
Danny Kruger
Co-Chair
Conservative - East Wiltshire
Joined: 24th January 2024
Lord Crisp Portrait
Lord Crisp
Co-Chair
Crossbench - Life peer
Joined: 24th January 2024
No other APPG Memberships
Sadik Al-Hassan Portrait
Sadik Al-Hassan
Officer
Labour - North Somerset
Joined: 2nd January 2025
Contact Details

Registered Contact:

Dr Simon Opher MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 02072 197116.

Email: simon.opher.mp@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point:

Dr Anne Guy, Beyond Pills Alliance. Tel: 01256 351 023

Email: dr.anneguy@beyondpillsappg.org

Secretariat:

Beyond Pills Alliance acts as the group's secretariat. https://beyondpillsalliance.org

Group's Website:

https://beyondpillsappg.org/

No benefits in kind are on record for the Beyond Pills APPG

No direct financial benefits are on record for the Beyond Pills APPG

Former APPG Officers
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath Portrait
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
Officer
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 24th January 2024
Departed: 30th May 2024
No other APPG Memberships
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
Officer
Conservative - Former Member for Winchester
Joined: 24th January 2024
Departed: 30th May 2024
No other APPG Memberships