Lung Diseases: Medical Equipment

(asked on 11th June 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the merits for his Department's policies of the recommendation by the Committee on Climate Change in its Net Zero report to switch NHS patients to (a) dry powder and (b) low-global warming inhalers by 2027 to help the NHS meet its carbon targets.


Answered by
Seema Kennedy Portrait
Seema Kennedy
This question was answered on 19th June 2019

NHS England and NHS Improvement is currently reviewing cost and system pressures from changing prescribing practice linked to lower carbon inhalers and potential medication change impacts for patients. The NHS Long Term Plan has committed to a reduction in the carbon impact of inhalers of 4% of the total National Health Service carbon reduction required over the next 10 years to meet the current Climate Change Act targets.

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