Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 106967

Sodium Valproate

Tabled: 20 January 2026
Answered: 2 February 2026

Question

Bob Blackman

ConservativeHarrow East

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether medicine-induced harm from sodium valproate is systematically captured within NHS patient safety, incident and mortality data.

Answer

Dr Zubir Ahmed
The National Health Service in England operates a comprehensive central database, the Learn From Patient Safety Events (LFPSE) service, which is a national NHS system for the recording and analysis of patient safety events that occur in healthcare. It col...

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