Question follow-through · 23071
Mental Health: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with stakeholders on intermittent shortages of (a) Olanzapine and (b) other anti-psychosis medicines in the UK.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 9 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 15 Jan 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with stakeholders on intermittent shortages of (a) Olanzapine and (b) other anti-psychosis medicines in the UK.
15 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jan 2025
Answer published
Department officials regularly meet with manufacturers and suppliers to discuss shortages of olanzapine and other anti-psychosis medicines, and how to manage them.We have been notified of some issues for olanzapine tablets and orodispersible tablets, howe...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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