Question follow-through · 9025
Brain: Tumours
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of providing brain tumour patients access to clinical trials.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 14 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 16 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 22 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
14 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of providing brain tumour patients access to clinical trials.
16 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Department is committed to ensuring that innovative, lifesaving treatments are accessible to National Health Service patients, including those with brain tumours, and to implementing the recommendations of Lord O'Shaughnessy’s review into commercial c...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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