Cancer: Research

(asked on 17th July 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that the NHS is investing in new treatments for rare forms of cancer, as research and technology advance.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 21st July 2017

There are established processes for considering and approving new treatments for use in the National Health Service. All unlicensed cancer drug use and the vast majority of specialised cancer surgical procedures are subject to NHS England’s Specialised Commissioning policy development process. The current service specification and clinical commissioning policies can be found on NHS England’s webpage for the Specialised Cancer Surgery Clinical Reference Group.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/spec-services/key-docs/

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