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<p>The Department is working with its partners across Government, arm’s length bodies,
local authorities, industry and the wider health and care system to ensure that all
relevant parties are prepared for exiting the European Union. The quality and safety
of patient care is paramount in our preparedness plans.</p><p> </p><p>In August 2019,
the Department published up-to-date guidance on GOV.UK on what local authorities can
do to prepare for EU Exit. This covers a range of issues including workforce, business
continuity planning, data sharing, and the continuity of supply of medicines, medical
devices and clinical consumables, and of non-clinical goods and services. It also
provides key contact information and signposts where local authorities and providers
can go for further support. We continue to work closely with the health and social
care sector to ensure that this guidance is accurate, practical and up-to-date.</p><p>The
Department, in consultation with the devolved administrations, has been working with
trade bodies, product suppliers, and the health and care system in England to make
detailed plans that should help ensure continuation of the supply of medical products
to the whole of the United Kingdom and its Crown Dependencies following the UK’s departure
from the EU</p><p>The Department, alongside NHS England and NHS Improvement, are ensuring
that there is regular communication with frontline NHS organisations and stakeholders
in the health and social care sector regarding EU Exit preparations. NHS England will
be holding EU Exit Roadshow’s in the lead up to the 31 October building on the regular
communication that the Department and NHS England has with the frontline.</p>
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