Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 9251

Cannabis: Medical Treatments

Tabled: 15 October 2024

Answered: 21 October 2024

Named Day

Question

Mr Paul Foster

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will undertake a review of NHS policy on the assessment of individual funding requests to support children for whom prescribing medical cannabis could help prevent repeated admissions to hosp

Answer

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published technology appraisals recommending Epidyolex, a licensed form of cannabidiol extracted from cannabis, for the treatment of seizures associated with two rare forms of epilepsies, sp...

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