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Breast Cancer: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of NICE’s severity modifier on people with secondary breast cancer.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
8 Jul 2025
Target answer date
10 Jul 2025
Answer
14 Jul 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 8 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of NICE’s severity modifier on people with secondary breast cancer.

  2. 10 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 14 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is responsible for the methods and processes that it uses in the development of its recommendations. The severity modifier was introduced in January 2022 as part of a number of changes intended ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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