Hospitals: Discharges
The question
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.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock
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 |
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