Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GP practices have adopted electronic repeat dispensing; and what steps he is taking to increase uptake of electronic repeat dispensing.

At the end of October 2020, 6,539 practices - almost every practice in England - have enabled the functionality to allow them to order prescriptions online.

In October 2019 regulation 60A (electronic repeat dispensing services) was introduced to the GP Contract. This requires a prescriber to issue an electronic repeatable prescription, where this is clinically appropriate for the patient and the patient has agreed to be issued with such a prescription.