Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review

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Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that women affected by taking Primados as a hormone pregnancy test are consulted about the terms of reference for Baroness Cumberlege's Review of the Safety of Certain Medicines and Medical Devices.


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Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 28th February 2018

The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has asked Baroness Cumberlege to finalise the terms of reference for the Medicines and Medical Devices Review and to consult on those terms of reference with stakeholders.

Baroness Cumberlege will engage with patient groups and other stakeholders throughout the course of the review.

Baroness Cumberlege will also involve patient groups representative of people concerned by the use of Primodos, Sodium Valproate and vaginal mesh from the early stages of the Medicines and Medical Devices Review.

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