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PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
WET AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION (22 October 2002)

Motion Details

That this House deplores the decision by NICE in its latest consultation document to erect new barriers to the treatment of patients suffering from wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) by restricting modern treatment to those with pure classic lesions only, despite the clear finding of its own appraisal committee that photodynamic therapy improves the chance of avoiding loss of vision by at least 15 letters on a sight-test board over a period of two years; therefore considers the NICE recommendation that modern treatment is used for most patients only as part of ongoing or new clinical trials to be reckless, given that there are no such ongoing trials and that, in any event, to treat the control group in a new trial with placebos would be unethical; notes that patients are purchasing the therapy privately in order to try to ensure that they do not go blind; and calls on the Government to put an end to this NICE process and ensure that the 5000 mainly elderly patients affected each year by wet AMD receive the best available treatment.

Sponsored by:
Sir Liam Fox (Conservative)

EDMS Sponsor By Party

Party
Votes
%
 
Conservative
55
75%
 
 
Independent
6
8%
 
 
Labour
5
7%
 
 
Liberal Democrat
3
4%
 
 
Not Available
1
1%
 
 
Speaker
1
1%
 
 
Ulster Unionist Party
1
1%
 
 
Non-affiliated
1
1%
 
Sponsor List (73 sponsors)
Party
Member
Constituency
Con
Sir David Amess
Con
Mr Peter Atkinson
Con
Lord Barker of Battle
Con
Mr John Baron
Spk
John Bercow
Lord Boswell of Aynho
Con
Sir Simon Burns
Con
Alistair Burt
Con
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton
Con
Sir William Cash
Con
Mr James Clappison
Lab
Michael Connarty
Con
Mr Peter Duncan
Con
Sir Alan Duncan
Con
Mr Nigel Evans
Con
Mr Adrian Flook
Con
Sir Liam Fox (Sponsor)
Con
Mr Mark Francois
Rayleigh and Wickford
Con
Lord Garnier
Con
Dame Cheryl Gillan
Con
Lord Goodman of Wycombe
Con
James Gray
Con
Mr John Greenway
Ind
Mr Dominic Grieve
Con
Lord Hammond of Runnymede
Ind
Mr Mike Hancock
Con
Sir Oliver Heald
Con
Charles Hendry
Ind
Lady Hermon
Lab
David Heyes
Con
Mr Mark Hoban
LD
Simon Hughes
LD
Lord Jones of Cheltenham
Con
Julie Kirkbride
Con
Baroness Laing of Elderslie
Con
Mrs Jacqui Lait
Ind
Sir Oliver Letwin
Con
Sir Julian Lewis
New Forest East
Con
Sir David Lidington
Con
Tim Loughton
Con
Sir Peter Luff
Con
Mr Andrew Mackay
Con
Mr Humfrey Malins
Con
Lord Maude of Horsham
Ind
John McDonnell
Hayes and Harlington
Con
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering
Lab
Mr Tony McWalter
Con
Dr Andrew Murrison
South West Wiltshire
Con
Mr Stephen O'Brien
Con
Mr George Osborne
Con
Lord Pickles
Con
Lord Randall of Uxbridge
Con
Dame Marion Roe
Con
Andrew Rosindell
Romford
Mr Jonathan Sayeed
Con
Andrew Selous
UUP
The Rev Martin Smyth
Con
Dame Caroline Spelman
Ind
Bob Spink
Con
Sir Gary Streeter
Con
Sir Desmond Swayne
New Forest West
Con
Lord Swire
Con
Sir Robert Syms
Lab
David Taylor
Lab
Mr Paul Truswell
LD
Lord Tyler
Con
Sir Peter Viggers
Con
Mr Nigel Waterson
Con
Dame Angela Watkinson
Con
Sir John Whittingdale
Maldon
Con
Miss Ann Widdecombe
Con
Ann Winterton
Con
Sir Nicholas Winterton

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