| Heading: |
Asthma: Medical Equipment |
| Question ID: |
1816031 |
| UIN: |
62444 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-24 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5357 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Ayoub Khan
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| Asking Member handle: |
AyoubKhanMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@AyoubKhanMP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of mandating the installation of dosage counters in all NHS-provided emergency asthma inhalers. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-03 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4444 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Karin Smyth
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| Answering Member handle: |
karinsmyth
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@karinsmyth
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| Answer text: |
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) understands the term “emergency asthma inhalers” in this context to refer to reliever inhalers containing short-acting beta agonist (SABA) licensed for the rapid relief of symptoms during acut... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |