| Heading: |
Prescriptions |
| Question ID: |
1811208 |
| UIN: |
58806 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-10 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5327 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Vikki Slade
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| Asking Member handle: |
vikkislade72
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@vikkislade72
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of providing funding for dispensing GPs to offer electronic prescribing. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-16 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4359 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Stephen Kinnock
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| Answering Member handle: |
skinnock
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@skinnock
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| Answer text: |
Following its launch in 2005, the Electronic Prescribing Service (EPS) is now used in more than 96% of general practices (GPs). While GP IT services and funding do not cover dispensing services provided by dispensing doctors, EPS is used in prescribing an... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |