Question follow-through · 53930
Epilepsy: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of barriers to regular access to prescribed medication on people with epilepsy.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 21 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 2 Jun 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of barriers to regular access to prescribed medication on people with epilepsy.
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Jun 2025
Answer published
There are a range of anti-seizure medications that have been recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) as effective in the treatment of epilepsy. NICE guidance outlines that clinicians should develop an individualised ant...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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