Skin Diseases: Steroid Drugs
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data (a) his Department and (b) NHS England holds on the proportion of prescribers and pharmacists who have received training on the risks of Topical Steroid Withdrawal.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock
The Department and NHS England do not hold data on the proportion of prescribers and pharmacists who have received training on the risks of topical steroid withdrawal.
Initial education and training and continued professional develop is wide ranging, including dermatology. Clinicians would be expected to provide advice and counselling to patients in-line with guidance issued by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency on the safe use of topical steroids and topical steroid withdrawal.
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