Parliamentary Question on the number of prescriptions for antidepressants that have been issued in each year since 2014; what was the annual cost to the National Health Service of those prescriptions; and what guidance is given to doctors and patients about the use of antidepressants, their subsequent withdrawal and potential long-term effect. – David Alton

Parliamentary Question on the number of prescriptions for antidepressants that have been issued in each year since 2014; what was the annual cost to the National Health Service of those prescriptions; and what guidance is given to doctors and patients about the use of antidepressants, their subsequent withdrawal and potential long-term effect.

Lord Markham, the Department of Health and Social Care, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL2020): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool:To ask His Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Prior of Brampton on 23 July 2015 (HL1632), how many prescriptions for antidepressants have been issued in each year since … Continue reading Parliamentary Question on the number of prescriptions for antidepressants that have been issued in each year since 2014; what was the annual cost to the National Health Service of those prescriptions; and what guidance is given to doctors and patients about the use of antidepressants, their subsequent withdrawal and potential long-term effect.