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date	02/04/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Prescription Drugs: Packaging
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of NHS prescription drugs are issued in recyclable packaging.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	240096
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 08/04/2019 15:27:29 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

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date	18/01/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Prescription Drugs: Packaging
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of re-packaging unused medication that has been returned to pharmacies to reduce waste in the health sector.
tabling member constituency	Crewe and Nantwich
tabling member printed	Laura Smith
uin	123688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>The Government does not promote the reuse of medicines that have left the pharmacy and returned to a pharmacy by patients, as it is not possible to guarantee the quality of a returned medicine on physical inspection alone.</p><p> </p><p>When medicines are returned from patients’ homes, there is no way of knowing how the medicines have been stored in people’s homes.</p><p> </p><p>The July 2017 edition of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s ‘Medicines, Ethics and Practice – The professional guide for pharmacists’ states that patients should be advised that unused, unwanted medicines should be returned to a pharmacy for safe disposal.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 25/01/2018 15:54:27 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4648 label Biography information for Laura Smith