Hydrocortisone

(asked on 9th October 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the suitability of currently available emergency hydrocortisone injection products for self-administration by patients experiencing an adrenal crisis.


Answered by
James Frith Portrait
James Frith
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 19th October 2026

The Department does not hold separately identifiable data on hospital admissions and subsequent fatalities relating specifically to adrenal crisis.

On the wider action being taken regarding the availability of emergency hydrocortisone injections, I refer the Hon. Member to the response given on 22 April to Question 126862, and to the response given on 25 June to Question 9822.

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