Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 62444

Asthma: Medical Equipment

Tabled: 24 June 2025

Answered: 3 July 2025

Question

Ayoub Khan

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.

Answer

Karin Smyth

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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