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Medical Treatments and Tofersen

Commons · Question 56055 · Tabled 30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 6 Jun 2025

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Asked by Aphra Brandreth

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that variations in local NHS (a) capacity and (b) resourcing of (i) Early Access Programmes and (ii) the availability of tofersen support the reduction

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Answered by Karin Smyth, 6 Jun 2025

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has received the application for tofersen and is currently reviewing it rapidly for quality, safety, and efficacy, for use in the United Kingdom.The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence ...