Roger Godsiff – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Roger Godsiff on 2015-11-05.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he Department has made of the effect of the availability of different cancer drugs being available in Scotland and Wales to those in England on the treatment of cancer in England.
George Freeman
No such assessment has been made.
It is for the Scottish and Welsh Governments to decide which cancer drugs should be made routinely available in Scotland and Wales.
In England, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is the independent body which makes decisions on the clinical and cost effectiveness of drugs, including cancer drugs, and other health technologies based on thorough assessment of the best available evidence.
The Cancer Drugs Fund has helped over 72,000 cancer patients in England, to access life-extending drugs that would not otherwise have been available to them.
