Blood Cancer: Medical Treatments

(asked on 22nd June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure blood cancer patients can access chemotherapy and systemic anti-cancer therapies (a) safely and (b) in a timely manner during the covid-19 outbreak.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 17th July 2020

A range of guidance has been published during the COVID-19 outbreak to support the safe delivery of cancer treatments. This includes chemotherapy and other systemic anti-cancer therapies which is the subject of a National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Rapid Guideline. NHS England has funded 13 additional treatment options in lymphoma and leukaemia for clinicians and patients to consider in the management of haematological malignancy in order to reduce the risk of infection with COVID-19.

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