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Breast Cancer: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that changes to NICE’s cost effectiveness thresholds results in improved and equitable access to new and effective treatments for people with incurable

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
20 Mar 2026
Target answer date
24 Mar 2026
Answer
30 Mar 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 20 Mar 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that changes to NICE’s cost effectiveness thresholds results in improved and equitable access to new and effective treatments for people with incurable

  2. 24 Mar 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 30 Mar 2026

    Answer published

    The Government intends to increase the standard cost-effectiveness threshold that the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) uses in its evaluations of medicines in line with the commitment in the United Kingdon and United States’ trade ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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