Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Independent Review

(asked on 6th September 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to reconsider their response to the recommendation in the report of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review First do no harm, published on 8 July 2020, that separate schemes should be set up to meet the cost of providing additional care and support to those who have experienced avoidable harm from hormone pregnancy tests, valproate and pelvic mesh interventions.


Answered by
Lord Kamall Portrait
Lord Kamall
This question was answered on 29th September 2021

The Government did not accept this recommendation and there are no plans to reconsider this response. Our priority is to make medicines and devices safer and we are pursuing a wide range of activity to further this aim. The response explains the changes that have been put in place since the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review report’s publication and the further action the Government will take to implement the recommendations accepted and to improve patient safety.

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