Question follow-through · 55967
Muscular Dystrophy: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps NHS England is taking to ensure that NHS Trusts are able to deliver emerging treatments for Duchenne muscular dystrophy when they are needed by patients.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 30 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 10 Jun 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps NHS England is taking to ensure that NHS Trusts are able to deliver emerging treatments for Duchenne muscular dystrophy when they are needed by patients.
3 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Department understands the impact that Duchenne muscular dystrophy has on those living with it and their families, and the urgent need for new treatment options. If new therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy are approved by the National Institute f...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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