Cancer: Drugs

(asked on 14th July 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether doctors will be able to make applications for cancer drugs for their patients from the Cancer Drugs Fund after May 2016.


Answered by
George Freeman Portrait
George Freeman
This question was answered on 20th July 2015

Since it was established, the Cancer Drugs Fund has helped over 72,000 people in England to receive the life-extending cancer drugs that would not otherwise have been routinely available to them.

This Government has committed to continuing to invest in the Fund.

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