Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 69551

Trastuzumab Deruxtecan

Tabled: 21 July 2025
Answered: 1 September 2025

Question

Helen Maguire

Liberal Democrat — Epsom and Ewell

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of NICE’s rejection of trastuzumab deruxtecan for use in secondary breast cancer treatment on patient outcomes.

Answer

Karin Smyth
Decisions on whether new medicines should be routinely funded by the National Health Service in England are made on the basis of recommendations from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) following an evaluation of a treatment’s cos...
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