Epilepsy: Pregnancy

(asked on 22nd March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to fund epilepsy medicines research to ensure safer drugs for pregnant women with epilepsy.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 30th March 2021

Since 2020, the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has funded three research projects on epilepsy medicines to ensure safer drugs for pregnant women with a combined value of £434,396.

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