Epilepsy: New Treatments

Lord Howarth of Newport Excerpts

Monday 2nd February 2015 Lords Chamber

[Lord Howarth of Newport (Lab)]

My Lords, if there is evidence that cannabidiol, and indeed cannabis itself, is efficacious in relation to epilepsy and other conditions, should not the Government accelerate the evaluation that the noble Lord, Lord Patel, has just called for?

[Baroness Jolly]

I am certainly not including cannabis in this but cannabidiol is being trialled in two places—Edinburgh and Great Ormond Street—with a view to moving it through to NICE as soon as the evidence is there and then on to treatment if that is deemed sensible.