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Sickle Cell Diseases: Prescriptions

Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 7 December 2018.

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Photo of Janet Daby Janet Daby Labour, Lewisham East

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to include sickle cell anaemia on the list of conditions for which medical exemption certificates for NHS prescriptions can be obtained.

Photo of Steve Brine Steve Brine The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care

The Department has no current plans to do so. Extensive arrangements are in place to ensure that people can access affordable prescriptions.

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  • (Citation: HC Deb, 7 December 2018, cW)

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