Cancer: Drugs

(asked on 23rd January 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Cancer Drugs Fund is to continue to fund any drugs where the appropriate company refused to make appropriate adjustment to their prices and where it failed to meet the value for money test.


Answered by
Earl Howe Portrait
Earl Howe
Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
This question was answered on 4th February 2015

A drug may be funded in exceptional circumstances via the individual funding route. In addition, a drug may be retained in the Cancer Drugs Fund in an indication where it provides greater clinical benefit than the indication for which it has been removed.

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