Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether there is a plan to introduce NICE guidance for lymphedema treatment.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published a number of clinical guidelines which include recommendations on the management of lymphoedema in cancer patients, including advanced breast cancer: diagnosis and treatment (CG81) and early and locally advanced breast cancer: diagnosis and treatment (CG80).

NICE has also published interventional procedures guidance, which supports the use of liposuction for chronic lymphoedema (IPG588).

There are no current plans for NICE to introduce an overarching guideline specifically on the treatment of lymphoedema.