Question follow-through · 4453
Respiratory Diseases: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the capacity of interstitial lung disease specialist centres, in the context of increased eligibility for antifibrotic treatment.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 5 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 11 Sept 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the capacity of interstitial lung disease specialist centres, in the context of increased eligibility for antifibrotic treatment.
11 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Sept 2024
Answer published
NHS England is responsible for the commissioning of interstitial lung disease (ILD) services and funds the high-cost, anti-fibrotic treatments. Access to these treatments was widened to people with non-idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, with the publication o...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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