11 October 2018 - Pharmaceutical companies “are doing everything in their power” to minimise disruption to the supply of medicines should the UK leave the EU under a ‘no-deal’ scenario, but a deal is urgently needed to fully protect patients, MPs have been told.

Giving evidence to a commons select committee, Mike Thompson, chief executive of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, said firms are increasing stocks of medicine and duplicating testing in the EU, but warned that there are situations “completely out of our control, which can only be fixed by a UK/EU deal on the future of medicines”.

Stockpiling alone will not guarantee supply in the event of a ‘no deal’, as there are medicines “which simply can’t be stockpiled due to temperature control, short shelf life or inability to travel,” he said, stressing “that is why we urgently need a deal”.

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