Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 33692

Ruxolitinib

Tabled: 25 February 2025
Answered: 3 March 2025

Question

Michael Payne

LabourGedling

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to (a) utilise the complex patient access scheme to make Ruxolitinib available on the NHS and (b) consider other options for vitiligo patients to receive that medication.

Answer

Karin Smyth
It is for the marketing authorisation holder to propose a complex patient access scheme for a medicine being evaluated by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which would then be considered by the NICE and NHS England through the ...

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