Cancer: Drugs

(asked on 24th November 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans NHS England has to consult (a) charities and (b) patients during the two month notice period for de-prioritisation of drugs from the Cancer Drugs Fund list.


Answered by
George Freeman Portrait
George Freeman
This question was answered on 1st December 2014

NHS England’s Cancer Drugs Fund panel plans to meet on 15 and 16 December to assess, on the basis of the latest evidence, whether certain drugs should continue to be made routinely available through the Fund and to consider a number of new drugs for potential addition to the Fund.

NHS England has advised that a meeting will be held with representatives of charities and patient groups on 12 January 2015 to communicate the outcome of the panel’s discussion, clarify the process by which decisions were made and the rationale for these.

This meeting will form part of the two month notice period prior to any drugs being formally removed from the national Cancer Drugs Fund list.

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