Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy that internal defibrillators be available on the NHS.

Implantable cardioverter defibrillators – internal defibrillators – are already available on the National Health Service.

The decision about whether to implant a defibrillator into a patient is a clinical one which we would expect to take account of any relevant guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.