Question follow-through · 5817
Pancreatic Enzyme Replacement Therapy: Shortages
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Serious Shortage Protocols in place for?Creon?10,000 and 25,000 capsules limiting prescriptions to one months’ supply; and what steps he is t
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 12 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 7 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 8 Oct 2024 · 26 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Serious Shortage Protocols in place for?Creon?10,000 and 25,000 capsules limiting prescriptions to one months’ supply; and what steps he is t
7 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Department has been working with suppliers to address current supply issues with pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (PERT), including Creon, to help ensure patients, including children with cystic fibrosis, have access to this medicine. The supply ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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