PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(11 June 2026)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance is in place to manage withdrawal symptoms of patients coming off antidepressant prescriptions.
Asked by:
Helen Morgan (Liberal Democrat)
Asked by:
Helen Morgan (Liberal Democrat)
Answer
In 2022, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence published guidelines entitled Medicines associated with dependence or withdrawal symptoms: safe prescribing and withdrawal management for adults to assist clinicians in supporting patients prescribed medicines with the potential for withdrawal-related adverse effects, including information on how to safely reduce and withdraw the prescribing of these medicines. The guidelines are available at the following link:
https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng215
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