Written questions

Pectus Excavatum: South West

Commons · Question 39313 · Tabled 18 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 26 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Ben Maguire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to expand access to the Nuss procedure for pectus excavatum cases in the South West.

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 26 Mar 2025

NHS England has carefully reviewed the evidence to treat pectus excavatum in patients. In an interim clinical commissioning urgent policy statement, NHS England concluded that there is enough evidence to make surgical treatment available as a routine comm...