Mark Tami – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Tami on 2015-10-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the decision to remove treatments for multiple myeloma from the Cancer Drugs Fund list on survival rates for patients with that condition.

George Freeman

NHS England has advised that no assessment has been made of the impact of these changes to the national Cancer Drugs Fund list on survival rates for multiple myeloma. These changes have not yet been finalised and agreed.