Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to train NHS staff on the use and availability of Naloxone.

It is the responsibility of the professional regulators to set the standards and outcomes for education and training and approve training curricula to ensure newly qualified healthcare professionals are equipped with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to provide high quality patient care.

Information on naloxone is provided for everyone, including National Health Service staff, on Public Health England’s drug information website FRANK:

http://www.talktofrank.com/emergency-help

Additionally, on 1 October 2015, access to naloxone was widened and a gov.uk page, ‘Widening the availability of naloxone’, was produced to explain in ‘plain English’ what the amended regulations allow and to answer any question a service or individual may have about it.

The page can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/widening-the-availability-of-naloxone/widening-the-availability-of-naloxone