United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 67249
Skin Diseases: Steroid Drugs
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11 July 2025
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18 July 2025 · Answer
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18 July 2025
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of topical steroid creams on (a) physical dependency and (b) withdrawal effects among users.
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11 July 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of topical steroid creams on (a) physical dependency and (b) withdrawal effects among users.
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18 July 2025
Answer
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has reviewed topical steroid withdrawal (TSW) reactions, and first communicated about these reactions in September 2021 through our Drug Safety Update, which is widely disseminated among healt...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-07-11/67249
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1822367
- uk · wq-1822367 · source updated 18 July 2025