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Influenza: Drugs

Volume 495: debated on Wednesday 8 July 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many doses of Relenza the NHS holds; and when he expects the antiviral stockpile to be complete. (283870)

The United Kingdom stockpile of Relenza is complete and amounts to 10.5 million treatment courses. Approximately 300,000 treatment courses have been distributed to the national health service in England.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health by what date he expects sufficient stockpiles of Tamiflu to be in place to be able to treat 80 per cent. of the population. (284200)

The delivery profile as indicated by the manufacturer should lead to us completing the stockpile in October 2009.