Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether pharmacies will be required to fulfil longer-term prescriptions for people in need of harm reduction medications during the covid-19 outbreak.

Advice, issued by NHS England and NHS Improvement, is that in the main general practitioners should not issue prescriptions for a longer duration, pharmacies should not order larger quantities, and patients and the public should not seek to stockpile medicines as this behaviour could put the supply chain at risk.