Andy Slaughter – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andy Slaughter on 2016-10-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether NHS England is looking at treatments for Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy.

David Mowat

Treatments for Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy are not currently within the Specialised Ear and Ophthalmology Clinical Reference Group work programme and there is no current work in the policy pipeline. Any new proposals are able to be submitted to NHS England who would consider in line with their agreed processes for specialised services.