Chris Chases Up Recommendations About NHS Pharmaceutical Waste Reduction
Christopher Chope Conservative, Christchurch
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 7 November 2022 to Question 75762 on Prescription Drugs, with reference to the estimated £300 million of NHS prescribed medicines wasted each year as detailed in the NHS report entitled Pharmaceutical waste reduction in the NHS, published on 18 June 2015, if he will make a revised estimate; and whether his Department has taken recent steps to implement the recommendations of that report.
Will Quince Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The estimated wastage derives from the 2010 report ‘Evaluation of the scale, causes and costs of waste medicines’ by the York Health Economics Consortium and the School of Pharmacy, University of London. The Department has no plans to commission a revised estimate.
The 2015 report ‘Pharmaceutical waste reduction in the NHS’ recommended the introduction of national pharmacist-led interventions to improve adherence and prevent waste. We have introduced a number of such interventions in community pharmacy and in general practitioner practices.
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