Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the national review of overprescribing in the NHS led by Chief Pharmaceutical Officer Dr Keith Ridge will be published.
The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care asked Dr Keith Ridge, Chief Pharmaceutical Officer for England, to lead a review of overprescribing in December 2018. The work was paused due to the COVID-19 pandemic because the majority of the participants have National Health Service clinical roles but has now resumed. The report will be finalised in the coming weeks.