Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 29224

Blood Cancer: Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products

Tabled: 5 February 2025

Answered: 12 February 2025

Named Day

Question

Sarah Bool

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to ensure that the NHS has the (a) ability and (b) resource to roll out (i) CAR-T therapies and (ii) other Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products for blood cancer.

Answer

Karin Smyth

The National Health Service in England is required to fund medicines and treatments recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) as a clinically and cost-effective use of NHS resources. NHS England has undertaken considerabl...

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