Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 1 December 2014 to Question 215687, whether there will be an appeal process during the two-month notice period prior to any drugs being formally removed from the national Cancer Drugs Fund list.

NHS England has advised that any request for a formal review of a decision made by the national Cancer Drugs Fund panel can be made in line with the Standard Operating Procedures for the Fund which are available at:

www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/pe/cdf/

This also applies during the two month notice period prior to any drugs being formally removed from the national Cancer Drugs Fund list. Any request for a review of a panel decision must be made by the clinician or pharmaceutical industry representative that made the original application.