Cancer: Drugs
(asked on 21st July 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans for a new system for the reimbursement of cancer drugs to be in place by April 2016 when the current Cancer Drugs Fund is proposed to end.
This question was answered on 7th September 2015
NHS England has advised that the Cancer Drugs Fund in its current form is due to operate until 1 April 2016. We understand that NHS England and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence will shortly be consulting jointly on a proposed new system for commissioning cancer drugs.