| Heading: |
Care Homes: Drugs |
| Question ID: |
1797760 |
| UIN: |
48379 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-28 |
| Asking Member ID: |
1521 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Mrs Sharon Hodgson
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| Asking Member handle: |
SharonHodgsonMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@SharonHodgsonMP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help increase uptake levels of the license for access to controlled drugs in UK care homes with nursing provision. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-09 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1533 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Dame Diana Johnson
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| Answering Member handle: |
DianaJohnsonMP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@DianaJohnsonMP
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
Most care homes will not require a licence to access medicines containing controlled drugs for patients who need them. This is because care homes run by public authorities or charities are exempt from the need for a licence. In addition, all care homes wi... |
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| Answering body ID: |
1 |
| Answering body name: |
Home Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |