Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects NHS England to publish the third quarter figures for Cancer Drugs Fund notifications and individual Cancer Drugs Fund requests for 2014-15; and if he will make a statement.
NHS England has advised that it expects to publish the third quarter figures for Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) notifications and individual CDF requests for 2014-15 on its website at: www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/pe/cdf/ by the end of February 2015.
Since October 2010, over 60,000 patients in England have benefitted from the CDF.