Coronavirus: Drugs

(asked on 20th January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the NHS has written to all people who are deemed at highest risk of becoming seriously ill with covid-19 and eligible for antiviral and antibody treatments to inform them of their eligibility for treatment.


Answered by
Maggie Throup Portrait
Maggie Throup
This question was answered on 26th January 2022

In England, approximately 1.3 million individuals have been pre-identified as potentially eligible for new COVID-19 treatments under the clinical access policy. These treatments are used to reduce the risk of deterioration or hospitalisation from COVID-19 infection.

The majority of patients will have received a letter or email informing them of their eligibility from NHS England and NHS Improvement. However, some potentially eligible patients are not centrally identifiable using national databases, such as those who are newly diagnosed and some cancer patients. Those patients are being contacted directly by their consultants.

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