George Freeman calls on the Government to find a way to enable patients to easily give consent for the release of NHS health data assets to help drive research and also to improve accelerated access to innovative medicines.
George Freeman welcomes the Prime Minister’s speech on the future of the UK/EU economic partnership and seeks reassurance that her proposal for associate membership of the European Medicines Agency means that the UK will be able to sell medicines into Europe and continue to lead in the pioneering technologies of tomorrow’s medicines.
George Freeman welcomes the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care’s announcement of a Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review – focussing on the pregnancy test drug Primodos, the use of vaginal mesh and the anti-epilepsy drug Sodium Valproate.
George Freeman calls on the Government to listen to backbench MPs and explain why the so-called Henry VIII powers - legislative changes deemed not to need Parliamentary scrutiny or vote - are needed when the whole point of Brexit is to bring back democracy to the UK Parliament.