questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that patients are not required to pay privately to obtain medicines prescribed to them on the NHS during periods of supply disruption.
answerText: Patients should not be required to pay privately for medicines that are prescribed to them on the National Health Service. Where supply disruption occurs, the Department has policies in place to ensure patients continue to have access to NHS prescriptions...
heading: Prescription Drugs: Shortages