Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to allow GP surgeries to directly provide patients with paracetamol, and other low cost readily available drugs, rather than issuing such medication via a prescription.

The Department has no plans to make changes to legislation to enable general practitioners to directly provide paracetamol, or other low cost readily available drugs for patients without the need for a prescription.

These drugs remain available to patients over the counter.