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...