Carol Monaghan – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Carol Monaghan on 2015-11-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what research his Department has conducted on the disincentives to prescribing off-patent repurposed drugs.

George Freeman

The Department has conducted no such research. Current arrangements already allow off-patent drugs to be prescribed for new purposes where this is the most appropriate clinical treatment course for a patient. Prescribing decisions are a matter for the clinical judgement of the prescriber concerned.