Learning Disability: Prescription Drugs

(asked on 9th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the information collected in the General Practice Extraction Service data for pandemic planning and research indicates whether the frequency of use of antipsychotic and antidepressant drugs in people with learning disabilities has changed in (a) England and (b) local areas during the covid-19 outbreak .


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 18th November 2020

The information is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

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