Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to include information on aplastic anaemia on the NHS website; and what criteria is used to determine which rare diseases are featured.

Working under the UK Rare Diseases Framework, the Government is committed to improving the lives of those living with rare diseases, such as aplastic anaemia.

There are over 7,000 rare diseases, often needing highly specialised input, and so the National Health Service website is not always the most appropriate platform to disseminate such information. At this stage there are no plans to add aplastic anaemia to the website.