Mental Illness: Prescription Drugs

(asked on 15th October 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the financial cost to (1) the economy, and (2) the Exchequer, of people with mental health conditions who do not take their prescribed medication.


Answered by
Lord O'Shaughnessy Portrait
Lord O'Shaughnessy
This question was answered on 29th October 2018

The Department has made no assessment of the financial cost to the public purse and the economy of people with mental illness who do not take their prescribed medication.

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