Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in what procedures is hyaluronidase permitted to be used by medical practitioners.
Hyaluronidase is licensed by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency for the following indications:
Enhance permeation of subcutaneous or intramuscular injections by subcutaneous injection, or by intramuscular injection; enhance permeation of local anaesthetics by local infiltration; enhance permeation of ophthalmic local anaesthetic to the eye; hypodermoclysis by subcutaneous injection; and extravasation by local infiltration.
There is no definitive list of procedures in which it can be used.