Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when plans he has to make the cyanoacrylate glue treatment for varicose veins available on the NHS.

Clinical commissioning groups are responsible for commissioning the treatment of varicose veins.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has developed guidelines on varicose vein treatment generally and on the use of cyanoacrylate glue specifically. Within this framework they are supportive of the use of cyanoacrylate glue occlusion. Organisations commissioning and delivering services are expected to take the recommendations contained within NICE clinical guidelines into account when planning and delivering services.