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Question follow-through · 62444

Asthma: Medical Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of mandating the installation of dosage counters in all NHS-provided emergency asthma inhalers.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
24 Jun 2025
Target answer date
26 Jun 2025
Answer
3 Jul 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 24 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of mandating the installation of dosage counters in all NHS-provided emergency asthma inhalers.

  2. 26 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 3 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) understands the term “emergency asthma inhalers” in this context to refer to reliever inhalers containing short-acting beta agonist (SABA) licensed for the rapid relief of symptoms during acut...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Asthma: Medical Equipment

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4 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of (a) all people with and (b) children with asthma have a personalised asthma action plan in Birmingham Perry Barr constituency.

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4 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the affordability of prescriptions for people with asthma in Birmingham Perry Barr constituency.

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