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Trastuzumab Deruxtecan: Scotland

Commons · Question 32712 · Tabled 21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 26 Feb 2025

Question

Asked by James MacCleary

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the availability of Enhertu in (a) Scotland and (b) Europe compared to (c) England and (d) Wales.

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 26 Feb 2025

Health is a devolved matter and decisions on the availability of medicines in Scotland and Wales are a matter for their own administrations. Other European countries operate very different health systems and direct comparisons of medicine availability are...