Pholcodine: Death
(asked on 14th March 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of how many people have died due to using pholcodine-containing cough and cold medicines.
This question was answered on 27th March 2023
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has not identified any deaths in patients in the United Kingdom known to have taken pholcodine or pholcodine-containing medicines, either from reporting to the MHRA Yellow Card scheme, from published literature studies or from any other sources.