questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the provision of Clozapine; whether he has considered the potential merits of ensuring earlier consideration of Clozapine where clinically appropriate following unsuccessful treatment with other medications; what steps his Department is taking to improve clinician training and awareness on the prescribing and management of Clozapine; and what steps he is taking to improve collaboration between mental health services, patients, carers and families in decisions relating to Clozapine treatment and wider mental health care provision.
answerText: Decisions about whether to prescribe clozapine, including when it should be considered in a patient’s treatment pathway, are matters for the clinician responsible for a patient’s care. Prescribers are expected to take full account of individual clinical c...
heading: Clozapine