Paul Foster MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Drugs: HospicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23189More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring the NHS to pay for all medications supplied to hospices.
Answer: Palliative and end of life care is commissioned at a local level by integrated care boards (ICBs). Consequently, neither the Department nor NHS England hold data centrally on which hospices have all medication supplied for free or at a discounted rate by ...
Answered 23 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDrugs: HospicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23188More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which hospices (a) have all medication supplied (i) for free and (ii) at a discounted rate and (b) do not have medication supplied by the NHS.
Answer: Palliative and end of life care is commissioned at a local level by integrated care boards (ICBs). Consequently, neither the Department nor NHS England hold data centrally on which hospices have all medication supplied for free or at a discounted rate by ...
Answered 23 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordCannabis: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9251More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will undertake a review of NHS policy on the assessment of individual funding requests to support children for whom prescribing medical cannabis could help prevent repeated admissions to hosp
Answer: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published technology appraisals recommending Epidyolex, a licensed form of cannabidiol extracted from cannabis, for the treatment of seizures associated with two rare forms of epilepsies, sp...
Answered 21 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordCannabis: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9250More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will hold discussions with the Lancashire Teaching Hospital Trust on the potential merits of enabling clinicians to prescribe unlicensed cannabis products to children for clinical reasons.
Answer: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published technology appraisals recommending Epidyolex, a licensed form of cannabidiol extracted from cannabis, for the treatment of seizures associated with two rare forms of epilepsies, sp...
Answered 21 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordEpilepsy: CannabisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9249More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has undertaken recent research on the use of medical cannabis for the treatment of epilepsy.
Answer: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published technology appraisals recommending Epidyolex, a licensed form of cannabidiol extracted from cannabis, for the treatment of seizures associated with two rare forms of epilepsies, sp...
Answered 21 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordEpilepsy: CannabisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9248More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has undertaken recent research on the use of medical cannabis for the treatment of (a) Dravet and (b) Lennox-Gastaut syndrome.
Answer: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published technology appraisals recommending Epidyolex, a licensed form of cannabidiol extracted from cannabis, for the treatment of seizures associated with two rare forms of epilepsies, sp...
Answered 21 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordCannabis: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8273More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients under the age of 18 are in receipt of an NHS funded cannabis-based (a) prescription and (b) medication.
Answer: The NHS Business Services Authority does not hold the information in the form requested as it is only a legal requirement for prescriptions to state the age for children under 12 years.Between November 2018 and July 2024, 21,299 items of licensed cannabis...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
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