Hepatitis: Drugs

(asked on 1st November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the cost of treatment with anti-viral drugs for each hepatitis C patient treated by NHS England in 2016–17.


Answered by
Lord O'Shaughnessy Portrait
Lord O'Shaughnessy
This question was answered on 15th November 2017

Hepatitis C medicines are subject to commercially confidential pricing agreements so it is not possible to disclose the cost for each patient treated. NHS England spent in excess of £200 million on direct-acting antivirals for hepatitis C in 2016-17.

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