NHS: Drugs

(asked on 8th January 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to Answer of 7 January 2019 to Question 203449 on Drugs, what recruitment has taken place to staff the additional medicine warehousing capacity referred to in that Answer.


Answered by
Stephen Hammond Portrait
Stephen Hammond
This question was answered on 16th January 2019

Contract agreements for storage have recently been signed or will be signed imminently. We have agreed funding on the condition that the additional medicine warehousing capacity is in place in time to accommodate stockpiled medicines by the beginning of February 2019.

Those warehouses are all in existence and have planning permission. It is for those contractors to determine the best means of ensuring that the warehouses are adequately staffed in line with their normal business practices.

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