Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what work his Department has carried out to establish acceptable levels of over treatment or treatment of false positive symptoms or test results in order to prevent death or disability.

No such work has been undertaken by the Department.

Clinicians are responsible for their own treatment decisions taking any relevant guidance into account. For example the General Medical Council’s, “Good practice in prescribing and managing medicines and devices (2013)”.

They should always satisfy themselves that the drugs or other substances they consider appropriate for their patients can be safely prescribed, that patients are adequately monitored and that, where necessary, additional support or supervision is available.