NHS: Drugs
(asked on 26th September 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure the supply of medicines to NHS (a) providers and (b) hospitals in the Cheshire and Merseyside area in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
The Department is doing everything appropriate to prepare for the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union. We want to reassure patients that our plans should ensure the supply of medicines and medical products when we leave the EU on 31 October.
The Department, alongside NHS England and NHS Improvement, is ensuring that there is regular communication with frontline National Health Service organisations, local authorities and other key partners in the health and social care sector regarding our EU exit preparations. As part of this essential engagement, NHS England and NHS Improvement have been holding EU exit roadshows around the country in the lead up to 31 October in order to brief staff.
On 26 June, we wrote to suppliers of medicines to the UK from or via the EU or European Economic Area setting out our continuing multi-layered approach to support continuity of supply of medicines and medical products from 31 October.
Further details can be found at the following link: