Allergies: Medical Equipment

(asked on 4th December 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 10 September 2018 to Question 170794 on Allergies: Medical Treatments, what steps have been taken to increase the supply of Epipens to the NHS.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 10th December 2018

Supplies of EpiPen and other adrenaline auto-injectors are currently available with further deliveries expected in the coming weeks. All patients who require an adrenaline auto-injector should now be able to obtain a device. The Department is continuing to work very closely with all the manufacturers of adrenaline auto-injectors and the supply situation is rapidly improving. We have been working very closely with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and NHS England over the past few months to manage this supply issue and we have issued clear guidance to patients, and their parents or caregivers, to explain the issue and what they should do, if they are having difficulties in accessing a new auto-injector device.

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