Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what national route exists for clinicians to seek access to targeted treatments already used in other cancers where a patient with a brain tumour has the same actionable mutation; and what barriers currently prevent wider use of that route.

Clinicians can ask for access to targeted treatments that are not routinely funded through an Individual Funding Request. Where a treatment is not routinely funded, a clinician can apply to the relevant commissioner on behalf of their patient.

Individual Funding Requests are for exceptional individual cases. They are not intended to provide routine access to treatments for groups of patients.