Nick Thomas-Symonds – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nick Thomas-Symonds on 2016-10-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress his Department has made on ensuring that repurposed, off-patent drugs are consistently available to NHS patients where evidence supports their use.

Nicola Blackwood

Current prescribing arrangements already allow off-patent drugs that are found to have new uses to be prescribed to patients.

The Government and medical research charities are working together to ensure that robust evidence showing new uses for existing drugs can be brought more systematically into clinical practice to benefit patients.