Pancreatic Cancer: Drugs

(asked on 3rd December 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress he has made on the decision-making process on whether the most effective medicines will continue to be made available to patients with pancreatic cancer on the NHS.


Answered by
George Freeman Portrait
George Freeman
This question was answered on 8th December 2014

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the independent body responsible for providing advice to the National Health Service on the clinical and cost-effectiveness of health technologies. NICE has been asked to appraise a number of pancreatic cancer drugs and commissioners will continue to be legally required to fund treatments recommended by NICE technology appraisal guidance.

Decisions on the drugs made available through the Cancer Drugs Fund are a matter for NHS England’s Cancer Drugs Fund panel. The standard operating procedures for the Fund, which outline the decision-making process the panel follows is available at:

www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/pe/cdf/

We are committed to maintaining the Cancer Drugs Fund until the end of March 2016. We will carefully consider with NHS England what arrangements should be put in place for the long term.

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