Prescriptions: Learning Disability
(asked on 7th March 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 7 March 2016 to Question 29571, on prescriptions: learning disability, if he will make it his policy to collect that information.
This question was answered on 10th March 2016
A prescription does not record whether someone has a learning disability so a collection of the requested information would require a change in the prescribing process.
As part of the Government’s commitment to improve care for people with learning disabilities NHS England is planning a programme of work to reduce inappropriate prescribing.