She highlighted the MHRA’s historical failings in investigating harmful drugs, its abysmal record regulating covid vaccines, its lack of transparency, fatal conflicts of interest, its failed Yellow Card early warning system and its intimidation of journalists.
She then lambasted the organisation, established in 2003, for ignoring covid vaccine safety signals which she said caused unnecessary injury and death, and for taking four years to publish minutes from a meeting with the Commission on Human Medicines (CHM) that discussed covid vaccine benefits versus risk. ‘Full of redactions’, it left readers with ‘more questions than answers’. The MHRA had removed the CHM minutes from its website by the weekend. One can only hope to reinstate the redactions.
In July 2020, Baroness Cumberlege published a report,
led by the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review
(IMMDS), into the MHRA which described the organisation as ‘disjointed,
siloed, unresponsive, and defensive’. Nothing has changed, as
highlighted in this important debate.
The good news is that the House recognised ‘that the Medicines and
Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency continues to need substantial
reform’....<<<Read More>>>...