Rebecca Long Bailey – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Rebecca Long Bailey on 2015-10-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the update of the current Cancer Drugs Fund list published on 4 September 2015, what assessment he has made of the potential effects on survival rates for (a) breast cancer, (b) pancreatic cancer, (c) lymphoma and (d) leukaemia of the removal of treatments from that list.

George Freeman

NHS England has advised that negotiations are continuing which may result in some drugs remaining in the Cancer Drugs Fund making it difficult to provide a meaningful estimate at this time.

NHS England also advises that the planned removal of these drugs from the Fund will have no or minimal impact on survival rates for the cancers listed.