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Immunotherapy

Commons · Question 34357 · Tabled 27 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 7 Mar 2025

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Asked by Pippa Heylings

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help improve equity of access to CAR-T therapy; and what assessment he has made of the potential merits of making it available as a first-line treatment for e

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Answered by Karin Smyth, 7 Mar 2025

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the body responsible for developing independent, evidence-based guidance for the National Health Service on whether licensed medicines should be routinely funded by the NHS, based on an asses...