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...