Cancer: Drugs

(asked on 2nd February 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of delivery against the commitment in NHS England’s Board Paper on the Cancer Drugs Fund that "no drug which was the only systemic therapy for the indication in question would be removed".


Answered by
Earl Howe Portrait
Earl Howe
Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
This question was answered on 13th February 2015

NHS England has been clear that, if a drug is the only systemic therapy for the cancer concerned, it has not been removed from the national Cancer Drugs Fund list.

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