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Prescriptions: Prisons

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN HL957, tabled on 11 September 2024

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to amend the National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Regulations 2015 to enable the electronic transfer of prescriptions between prisons and community pharmacies.

Answered on

8 October 2024

NHS England is considering extending the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) to Detained Estate health services in England, and the Department is engaging with them on this work.