| Heading: |
Prescriptions |
| Question ID: |
1807801 |
| UIN: |
HL7906 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-02 |
| Asking Member ID: |
3349 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Baroness Buscombe
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Baroness Buscombe
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what is the percentage of free prescriptions in England that remain uncollected by patients and are subsequently destroyed by the NHS; and what is the average cost of uncollected and destroyed prescriptions to the Exchequer |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-09 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
347 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Merron
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Baroness Merron
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| Answer text: |
The Department does not hold information on the number of prescriptions that are uncollected. The majority of uncollected prescriptions can be disassembled, and the medicines returned to the pharmacy’s stock, ready to be used to fill other prescriptions. |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |