questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing pharmacists to prescribe alternative medications if those prescribed by a GP are not available without referring back to the GP.
answerText: Our assessment is that allowing pharmacists to take local action to alter prescriptions and supply an alternative without the full oversight of supply issues that the Department has, could have the effect of creating a knock-on shortage of the alternative...
heading: Prescription Drugs: Pharmacy
  