Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 39425
Parkinson's Disease: Medical Treatments
Tabled: 19 March 2025
Answered: 25 March 2025
Question
Jim Shannon
Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking with devolved governments to help ensure the equal provision of NICE-approved treatments across the UK for (a) advanced and (b) complex Parkinson’s disease.
Answer
Karin SmythThe National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) makes recommendations on whether new medicines should be routinely funded by the National Health Service in England. Health is a devolved matter and decisions on the availability of medicines is...
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