Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the potential inclusion of pectus deformity surgery in the Commissioning through Evaluation programme.

Any decision to fund surgery and make commissioning decisions by assessing needs, planning and prioritising is a matter for NHS England and NHS Improvement. It would therefore not be appropriate for the Government to influence their ‘Commissioning through Evaluation’ programme, which enables new clinical patient data to be collected for treatments that show significant promise.

NHS England and NHS Improvement advise that if new evidence on the surgical treatment for pectus deformity is presented, their current policy can be reviewed.