Written questions

Liothyronine

2026-06-01 · Department of Health and Social Care · HL557 · Official question

Question

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford on 5 November 2019 (HL458), what plans they have for NHS England to require integrated care boards to cease using Individual Funding Requests or Exception

Answer

Individual Funding Requests are not intended to be used for rationing treatments, such as liothyronine. All clinical commissioning groups have their own Individual Funding Request policies that enable commissioners to focus on commissioning services that ...