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Nick Smith
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Nick Smith Excerpts(10 years, 12 months ago)
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Mr Hunt
I thank my hon. Friend for highlighting this important issue. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency regularly reviews the evidence relating to anti-epileptic drug use, particularly sodium valproate products, and we check what information is available to doctors so that it can be passed on to patients. I am concerned about the issue my hon. Friend raises, so I have asked NHS England’s national director of patient safety, Dr Mike Durkin, to look into it carefully and get back to me.
Nick Smith (Blaenau Gwent) (Lab)
New York has raised the age for buying tobacco products to 21. As a public health care policy, has the Department considered that matter?