Epilepsy: Cannabis
Commons · Question 25413 · Tabled 21 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Question
Asked by Martin Wrigley
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to a legal prescription for pharmaceutical cannabis-based epilepsy treatments.
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 27 Jan 2025
Licensed cannabis-based medicines are routinely available on the National Health Service. Epidyolex is used for the treatment of seizures associated with two rare forms of epilepsy, specifically Dravet syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, and tuberous sc...