Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 65053

Breast Cancer: Medical Treatments

Tabled: 4 July 2025

Answered: 10 July 2025

Question

Bell Ribeiro-Addy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to review severity modifiers used by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence to assess treatments for incurable secondary breast cancer.

Answer

Karin Smyth

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is responsible for the methods and processes that it uses in the development of its recommendations. The severity modifier was introduced in January 2022 as part of a number of changes intended ...

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