Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, if Avastin is approved for safe use, whether it could be privately purchased for use by a patient being treated on the NHS.

For patients receiving private and National Health Service care for the same condition, NHS and private treatment can be supervised by one healthcare team. However, patients cannot choose to mix different parts of the same treatment between NHS and private care.

For example, a patient cannot have a cataract operation on the NHS and pay privately for special lens implants that are normally only available as part of private care.

Instead, a patient either has both the operation on the NHS and standard NHS lens implants or pay for both the operation and implants privately.