Antidepressants: Children
(asked on 22nd July 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children have been prescribed anti-depressants (a) since 1 January 2020 and (b) in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 1st September 2020
The NHS Business Services Authority have announced the publication of experimental statistics on Medicines Used in Mental Health. These will include the number of children, aged 17 years or younger, that have been prescribed anti-depressants in each financial year from 2015/16 to 2019/20 and up to Q1 of 2020/21. The provisional release date for these statistics is 10 September.