Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which individuals and professional organisations issue guidance on the stockpiling of noradrenaline for the treatment of covid-19 to (a) his Department and (b) NHS England.
In preparation for a second wave of COVID-19 and to protect the security of the supply of critical life-saving medicines and patient health across the United Kingdom, an assessment of intensive care unit and end of life care medicines and antibiotics that should be stockpiled, informed by senior clinicians and those with experience of treating COVID-19 patients, was led by NHS England in May and June and this fed into two Departmental tender exercises. Noradrenaline is one of the medicines that is being sourced by the Department.