Cannabis: Medical Treatments

(asked on 16th October 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether all patients with health conditions previously determined by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency to benefit from the use of cannabis will automatically qualify for prescriptions for medicinal cannabis.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 24th October 2018

Subject to Parliamentary approval, from 1 November doctors on the General Medical Council’s specialist register can make the decision to prescribe cannabis-based products for medicinal use where deemed clinically appropriate and in the best interests of patients. Prescribers will need to follow local governance procedures for prescribing unlicensed medicines.

The regulations do not limit the types of conditions that can be considered for treatment and will only be able to be supplied under the prescription or direction of a specialist doctor.

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