Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 37903

Prescription Drugs: Finance

Tabled: 12 March 2025

Answered: 19 March 2025

Question

Gideon Amos

Liberal Democrat — Taunton and Wellington

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the funding for early access programmes.

Answer

Karin Smyth

There are no current plans to increase funding for medicines supplied through early access programmes. The early access to medicines scheme (EAMS) was formed in 2014 and aims to give patients with life threatening or seriously debilitating conditions acce...

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