PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Cancer Drugs Fund (11 September 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what mechanisms there are for appeal against NHS England's decision announced on 4 September 2015 to remove (a) Abraxane and (b) 22 other drugs and indications from the Cancer Drugs Fund list of approved drugs; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by:
Sir Nicholas Dakin (Labour)

NHS England has advised that the mechanisms for appeal are as set out in Appendix G, section 11 of the Cancer Drugs Fund Standard Operating Procedures which are published on NHS England’s website at:

www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/cdf-sop-2015-16.pdf

Answered by:
George Freeman (Conservative)
16 September 2015