Medical Treatments: Innovation
(asked on 21st October 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to introduce an innovative medicines fund.
This question was answered on 4th November 2020
We made a commitment to extend the successful Cancer Drugs Fund into a new Innovative Medicines Fund to fund the most advanced, life-saving treatments for conditions such as cancer or autoimmune disease and for children with other rare diseases.
Proposals for the fund are in development and we expect NHS England and NHS Improvement and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence to lead an engagement exercise early next year.