NHS: Drugs
Commons · Question 80696 · Tabled 10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Question
Asked by Freddie van Mierlo
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure medicine shortages do not impact clinicians' ability to prescribe medicines that are best suited to the patient.
Answer
Answered by Zubir Ahmed, 20 Oct 2025
The resilience of UK supply chains is a key priority, and we are continually learning and seeking to improve the way we work to both manage and help prevent supply issues and avoid shortages. In August, the Government published a policy paper, ‘Managing a...