Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation will be made available on the NHS.

Electrical Stimulation can potentially be used to treat a range of conditions, including in some cases, the symptoms of neuromuscular disorders.

Where appropriate the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) will consider emerging treatments through its technology appraisal guidance. This guidance makes recommendations on whether selected drugs and treatments represent a clinically and cost-effective use of National Health Service resources. Commissioners are legally required to fund drugs and treatments recommended in NICE technology appraisal guidance within three months of its final guidance being issued. This is reflected in the NHS Constitution as a right to NICE approved drugs.