Tranquillisers: Prescriptions

(asked on 14th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many prescriptions were issued for tranquillisers in each year from 2015 to date, which exceeded the Committee on Safety of Medicines two to four week guidelines issued in 1988.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 22nd January 2020

The Department does not hold the information requested as the NHS Business Services Authority does not capture the duration for which a prescription is intended to be used.

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