Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has had any discussions with the pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo on offering people living with HER2-low metastatic breast cancer, who are currently unable to access Enhertu due to having received additional lines of chemotherapy, compassionate access to the drug.

Answered by James Frith - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

I have had no discussions with the companies about the compassionate use of Enhertu outside the clinical commissioning criteria for its use in National Health Service patients.

We sympathise with all individuals in the situation raised by the Hon. Members. However, the kind of compassionate use schemes referred to operate outside the established commissioning arrangements for medicines and their provision remains a matter for the pharmaceutical companies concerned.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help ensure that children and young people in Lancashire who have experienced the death of a sibling by suicide can access timely, specialist bereavement and mental health support; and what steps she is taking to tackle gaps in provision.

Answered by Alison McGovern - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

In Lancashire, support for suicide bereavement is provided through the commissioned Amparo service and the wider children and young people’s emotional wellbeing and mental health system, according to individual need. This includes Mental Health Support Teams in schools and colleges, Primary Mental Health Workers, talking therapies, peer support and mentoring, and KOOTH online support. Specialist mental health services are also available where there is an identified clinical need.

The Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust also works with voluntary sector organisations, including Barnardo’s, to support children and families following the death of a sibling, according to their needs and at a time when such support would be most helpful.

Finally, the NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board works with local public health teams and other partners to identify gaps in bereavement services, including barriers to accessing support, while improving support for people affected by and bereaved by suicide is a specific aim of the Government’s national Suicide Prevention Strategy.

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