Cannabis: Medical Treatments

(asked on 19th June 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many licences have been issued for the prescription of medicinal cannabis.


Answered by
Seema Kennedy Portrait
Seema Kennedy
This question was answered on 27th June 2019

The law stipulates that any doctor on the General Medical Council’s Specialist Register can prescribe cannabis-based products for medicinal use. No licences are required to prescribe.

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