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Cancer: Drugs

Commons · Question 88817 · Tabled 10 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 26 Nov 2025

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Asked by Lee Anderson

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that people who cannot afford anticancer treatment will continue to receive treatment beyond the stopping date of their anticancer agent being ava

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Answered by Zubir Ahmed, 26 Nov 2025

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the independent body that develops authoritative, evidence-based recommendations on whether new licensed medicines should be routinely funded by the National Health Service based on an assess...