Question follow-through · 68796
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure access to new medicines for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in England.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 17 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jul 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure access to new medicines for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in England.
21 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jul 2025
Answer published
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the independent body responsible for developing authoritative, evidence-based recommendations for the National Health Service on whether new medicines represent a clinically and cost-effectiv...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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