Coronavirus: Medical Equipment

(asked on 23rd March 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of providing free inhalers to health and social care workers during the covid-19 outbreak.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 29th May 2020

The Department has no plans to change the list of exemptions from National Health Service prescription charges. Arrangements are already in place to help people access inhalers and other medication they need.

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