Written question asked by Sarah Gibson (Liberal Democrat) on Wednesday, 7 May 2025, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 12 May 2025. It was answered by Stephen Kinnock (Labour) on Wednesday, 14 May 2025 on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.
Hospitals: Discharges
- Question
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish data on the average waiting times for discharge medications in hospital trusts within Wiltshire.
- Answer
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The Department does not hold data in the format requested. The data that is recorded relates to the dispensing time, from a prescription arriving in the dispensary to the time the medication is made available for the patient. The following table shows the most recent data available, for April 2025, regarding the average dispensing time for a prescription in the NHS South West region:
Region
Average time per discharge prescription
NHS South West
77 minutes
Secondary information
- Type
- Written question
- Reference
- 50736
- Session
- 2024-26
- Subjects
- Discharges Hospitals Drugs Wiltshire
- Contains statistics
- Yes
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