Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 69550

Breast Cancer: Medical Treatments

Tabled: 21 July 2025
Answered: 1 September 2025

Question

Helen Maguire

Liberal Democrat — Epsom and Ewell

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of NICE’s severity modifier on access to new 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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