Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will allocate funding to the NHS to invest in Pectus Excavatum treatment.

NHS England and NHS Improvement are required to commission specialised services that are often expensive, rare or commissioned on too big a footprint for individual clinical commissioning groups to commission.

Pectus Excavatum treatment is an example of a specialised service and therefore the responsibility of NHS England and NHS Improvement. commissioning policy for surgery for pectus deformity, dated February 2019, is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/surgery-for-pectus-deformity-all-ages/