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Written Question
Bowel Cancer: Bevacizumab
Tuesday 26th July 2022

Asked by: Andy Carter (Conservative - Warrington South)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to take steps to make Avastin available on the NHS for people with stage 3 or 4 bowel cancer.

Answered by Maria Caulfield

Bevacizumab (Avastin) is not routinely funded on the National Health Service in England. In 2012, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) considered the clinical and cost-effectiveness of bevacizumab for the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer in adults. However, it was unable to recommend the drug as an effective use of resources. NICE monitors new evidence which may affect its guidance and would consult on proposed changes with stakeholders if any such evidence emerges.

Where a treatment is not routinely commissioned by the NHS, a patient’s clinician may submit an individual funding request if they consider it is in the patient’s best interests.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 07 Feb 2022
Dentist Industry and NHS Backlogs

"All of us at some point will suffer from toothache. We would like to think that getting treatment through the NHS would be a relatively painless thing to achieve. Indeed, most of us have grown up with the thought that a regular check-up and work when it is needed is …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 07 Feb 2022
Dentist Industry and NHS Backlogs

"I thank the Father of the House for his intervention, and I agree with him—the needle in a haystack analogy is absolutely right. In my role as a local MP, I am representing both providers of dental treatment and patients who want to access that treatment. So I have tried …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 07 Feb 2022
Dentist Industry and NHS Backlogs

"I absolutely agree with the hon. Gentleman. That is the purpose of this debate: to highlight to the Minister the concern that I and other Members around the country have that NHS dentistry is on the brink and that there has to be radical change.

As well as talking to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 07 Feb 2022
Dentist Industry and NHS Backlogs

"My hon. Friend is absolutely right: many of the dentists I have spoken to say that working with these activity targets is like being on a treadmill. It wrongly puts the focus on meeting targets, rather than delivering the sort of patient care we need to be delivered in our …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 07 Feb 2022
Dentist Industry and NHS Backlogs

"My hon. Friend raises an interesting point. I spent Friday afternoon with a GP practice in Warrington South and heard from the doctor there about the work that is now undertaken by nurse practitioners in the surgery and in the community. It seems sensible to me to upskill dental nurses …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 07 Feb 2022
Dentist Industry and NHS Backlogs

"I thank the Minister for setting out very clearly how dentists have come back to operate in their surgeries. As she mentions and as I said in my speech, dentists were asked just before Christmas to deliver 85% of the UDAs for the three-month period from January to March. A …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 07 Feb 2022
Dentist Industry and NHS Backlogs

"I understand what the Minister says. The way dentists are paid is not that dissimilar to the way MPs are paid: they get a chunk of money and have to pay their rent and pay their staff, as they have had to do all the way through the period. If …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 03 Dec 2021
Health and Social Care

"Following the point made by the hon. Member for Weaver Vale (Mike Amesbury), the greatest challenge that we face to recovery from covid in Warrington is that our hospital is too small. Warrington trust recently submitted a bid for a new purpose-built hospital. Will my hon. Friend assure me that, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 21 Oct 2021
Covid-19: Government Response

"When I speak to my constituents I sense there is an element of uncertainty as to exactly who is entitled to a booster vaccination. May I ask the Minister to be really clear for my constituents in Warrington: who is eligible and how can they check?..."
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