Innovative Medicines Fund: Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products

(asked on 10th November 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 23 October 2023 to Question 203304 on Innovative Medicines Fund, whether he has had recent discussions with (a) NHS England and (b) the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence on the use of the Fund to facilitate rapid access to advanced therapy medicinal products to treat severe and debilitating diseases.


Answered by
Andrew Stephenson Portrait
Andrew Stephenson
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 16th November 2023

The Department regularly discusses a range of issues with colleagues in NHS England and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) related to patient access to effective new medicines.

NICE has been able to recommend several advanced therapeutic medicinal products for routine NHS use which are now available to NHS patients in line with NICE’s recommendations. No advanced therapeutic medicinal products have been recommended for use through the Innovative Medicines Fund and NICE continues to consider the suitability of medicines for the Fund with individual companies.

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