Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will commission a review of the application process for Parkinson's disease Duodopa treatment, with a view to simplifying and speeding up applications.

In April 2013 NHS England assumed responsibility for commissioning adult specialist neurosciences services, including the majority of services for people with Parkinson’s disease.

Individual funding requests relating to treatments that NHS England is responsible for commissioning are handled in line with NHS England’s individual funding requests standard operating procedure, which is at:

www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/cp-04.pdf

NHS England has informed me that there are no current plans to review these arrangements.