John Glen – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Glen on 2015-10-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to procure extended half-life blood clotting factor products for use in the NHS.

George Freeman

The Department plans to tender for extended half-life Clotting Factor VIII and Factor IX for use in the National Health Service once the products are granted European Union licences and are commercially available.

NHS England has made no decision at this time to whether it will develop a clinical commissioning policy for extended half-life productsbut, through the Clinical Reference Group and discussion with the Department’s Commercial Medicines Unit, will continue to review commissioning of these extended half-life products in the future.