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Mental Health: Drugs

Commons · Question 23071 · Tabled 9 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 15 Jan 2025

Question

Asked by Luke Charters

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with stakeholders on intermittent shortages of (a) Olanzapine and (b) other anti-psychosis medicines in the UK.

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 15 Jan 2025

Department officials regularly meet with manufacturers and suppliers to discuss shortages of olanzapine and other anti-psychosis medicines, and how to manage them.We have been notified of some issues for olanzapine tablets and orodispersible tablets, howe...