Parkinson's Disease: Medical Treatments
Commons · Question 39425 · Tabled 19 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Jim Shannon
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking with devolved governments to help ensure the equal provision of NICE-approved treatments across the UK for (a) advanced and (b) complex Parkinson’s disease.
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 25 Mar 2025
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) makes recommendations on whether new medicines should be routinely funded by the National Health Service in England. Health is a devolved matter and decisions on the availability of medicines is...