Write to your MP about medication shortages
Support our campaign
Join our campaign to end medication shortages by asking your MP to write to Health Minister Karin Smyth. Our templated letter is easy to use and will also find your constituency MP according to your postcode.
Medication shortages are a huge worry for people with long-term health conditions, including epilepsy and over the last year we have been raising the issue both in the media and at government level, calling for an end-to-end review of the medicines supply chain.
We believe that everyone has a right to their medication at the right time, at the right dose and from their local pharmacist. We have been working with other health charities including Epilepsy Action, SUDEP Action and Parkinson’s UK to ask the government to resolve this crisis.
Around 1,400 of you completed our joint survey which showed that 70 per cent of people with epilepsy or Parkinson’s struggled to get their medication, 55 per cent had to visit multiple pharmacies before they could get their prescription fulfilled, and 66 per cent were only given a fraction of their prescription due to a shortage of supplies.
Now we are hoping that you will join our campaign by asking your local MP to call on Health Minister, Karin Smyth MP, to support people living with epilepsy and Parkinson's impacted by medicine shortages. You can find our templated form here:
By filling in your post code, you will be put in automatic contact with your local MP and by sharing your own personal experience of medication shortages, it will help to underline the seriousness of the situation.
If enough MPs email the Health Minister, it will help to bring medication shortages to the top of the political agenda.
Please help us to resolve this crisis.