Question follow-through · 22661
NHS: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure patients that rely on medicines for (a) epilepsy, (b) ADHD and (c) Parkinson's are not impacted by supply shortages.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 8 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 14 Jan 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure patients that rely on medicines for (a) epilepsy, (b) ADHD and (c) Parkinson's are not impacted by supply shortages.
13 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Department is working hard with industry to help resolve intermittent supply issues with some epilepsy medications. As a result of ongoing activity and intensive work, including directing suppliers to expedite deliveries, some issues, including with s...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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