Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 39313
Pectus Excavatum: South West
Tabled: 18 March 2025
Answered: 26 March 2025
Question
Ben Maguire
Liberal Democrat — North Cornwall
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to expand access to the Nuss procedure for pectus excavatum cases in the South West.
Answer
Karin SmythNHS England has carefully reviewed the evidence to treat pectus excavatum in patients. In an interim clinical commissioning urgent policy statement, NHS England concluded that there is enough evidence to make surgical treatment available as a routine comm...
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